function format_rss_channel

Formats an RSS channel.

Arbitrary elements may be added using the $args associative array.

Related topics

2 calls to format_rss_channel()
node_feed in modules/node/node.module
Generates and prints an RSS feed.
theme_aggregator_page_rss in modules/aggregator/aggregator.pages.inc
Prints the RSS page for a feed.

File

includes/common.inc, line 1798

Code

function format_rss_channel($title, $link, $description, $items, $langcode = NULL, $args = array()) {
    global $language_content;
    $langcode = $langcode ? $langcode : $language_content->language;
    $output = "<channel>\n";
    $output .= ' <title>' . check_plain($title) . "</title>\n";
    $output .= ' <link>' . check_url($link) . "</link>\n";
    // The RSS 2.0 "spec" doesn't indicate HTML can be used in the description.
    // We strip all HTML tags, but need to prevent double encoding from properly
    // escaped source data (such as &amp becoming &amp;amp;).
    $output .= ' <description>' . check_plain(decode_entities(strip_tags($description))) . "</description>\n";
    $output .= ' <language>' . check_plain($langcode) . "</language>\n";
    $output .= format_xml_elements($args);
    $output .= $items;
    $output .= "</channel>\n";
    return $output;
}

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