I've seen several threads on the topic. Apparently it's not easily solved.

Ah. Okay, you can use htaccess to protect a folder on your server. The popup comes from the browser, but I think most do not have an option to remember the username. There is no way to control this...

An .htaccess file is designed to instruct apache what to do with certain requests. It is not for coding login forms etc.

You can just retrieve your news items from your database and feed them into a template, which will output your RSS xml. What language are you using ?

See this thread:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread71755.html

The XmlDataSource is a .NET component, it won't run on a linux server. What language are you using ? PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby ?

You are also including displace.php. Could that be causing the extra lines ?

Look at the source of your page output: http://www.socialemo.com/rss.php

(view in browser, then view source)

There are 10 empty lines before the <?xml tag. They have to come from somewhere....

There are spaces and empty lines before the first tag... make sure you remove them.

This is the header I'm using:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

Google has no request for retrieving the username/email.

I can answer for Google OAuth: no. If you want to have the user's email address, then you can implement ClientLogin instead. However, I can't imagine that users are willing to supply their google...

http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2009/06/restful-web-service-tutorial-introduction-rest-restful.html

Yes, you can just code rss.php to output a valid xml file.

Where is the information coming from ? In sites I've made, the RSS feed is generated by PHP and a template to show the 10 latest news items. The latest 10 should suffice, because most readers store...

I only know of Servebase, but it is limited to the UK.

Some, but not all. There are gateways which you can interface with through SOAP for example. You'll have to look for one though.

Can you be more specific ? I'm sure you don't mean using FTP to upload an executable file.

If you are not willing to use a payment gateway, it will be very hard to accomplish. To be able to do it without, you would need an agreement with a bank over the handling of the cards. Unless you...

Do you mean for indexing ? It is possible to add it to Google Webmasters Tools as a sitemap.

You can try this in google search:

link:www.crohole.com

But it will not show all, I'm sure. If you add your site to Google, Bing and/or Yahoo websmaster tools, you can get a more complete list,...

You could add the need for an authorization token, much like e.g. the Google API key

You could setup your firewall to allow only verified hosts/ip addresses

You can test your output and get feedback:

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi

You could return your xhtml in a cdata block.
http://www.w3schools.com/xmL/xml_cdata.asp

Hi. You can use this in your htaccess file


RewriteRule ^news.xml$ "news.php" [L]


It redirects news.xml to news.php.

In news.php you can use:

Not possible from within an XML file. However, you could for example use a .htaccess file to redirect news.xml to a php file which will generate and output the XML.

Missing:


<atom:link href="http://www.fallenangelunlimited.com/podcasts.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>


E-mail address should be in the form:
...

You can create a login function that will return a kind of session-id, which is stored on the server in the database. Use this id as a parameter for other functions. If the user logs off or a certain...

looks like it is not parsing the php. maybe it's best to separate the php and xml. personally i use smarty templates to build the rss.

my rss code looks like this:

<?php
require_once...

Here's a good start:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/dotnetwebservices/DotNetWebServices.asp