Book Reviews RSS feed

As yet another little programming exercise (using Eris’s Ngeblog library) I created an RSS 2.0 feed of just my book reviews. The intial impetus came from reading Kris Hadlock’s article Creating a Custom RSS Feed with PHP and MySQL though my code is substantially different since I already had the key data in my own table schema and, of course, use the Blogger GData API to pull in the full post body as description.

You may notice that the feed is served through FeedBurner; I used their service to make it more accessible and also because to do so I had to go through the exercise of making it validate, which was a bit of a PITA but just more learning for me.

Enjoy!