generating an RSS Feed from remote xml data

Question

I am trying to make an RSS feed which feeds live data from a remote XML file provided to me for promoting a webcam network.

I want to run a feed within my official website. My problem is, I want to output the data into an RSS feed. I am not too familiar with RSS and php so there is a lot of guess work going on.

Here is the code I have so far which will not work, it incorporates php to retrieve the xml data. Also I am unsure as to what filename/type I save this as? XML or php? Both don't seem to work.

<?php
$curlData = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SMLQuery>
<Options MaxResults="20"/>
<AvailablePerformers Exact="false" PageNum="1" CountTotalResults="true">
<Include>
<Country/>
<Headline/>
<Descriptions></Descriptions>
<Rating/>
<Age/>
<Gender/>
<Media>biopic</Media>
<FreeChatSort/>
<PerformanceSort/>
</Include>
<Constraints> <StreamType>live,recorded,offline</StreamType>
<PublicProfile/>
<Name></Name><NoKeywords/>
<RelativeURLs/>
<NoKeywords/>
</Constraints>
</AvailablePerformers>
</SMLQuery>';
$url='http://affiliate.streamate.com/?????/SMLResult.xml';
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,120);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array (
'Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8',
));
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curlData);

$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close ($curl);

$xml = simplexml_load_string ($result);
// $json = json_encode($xml);
// $array = json_decode($json,TRUE);


?>


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<rss version="2.0"> 
<channel> 
<title>Website Feed</title> 
    <description>Website Feed coded manually</description>
<link>yourdomain.com</link>; 

<?php
foreach ($xml->AvailablePerformers->Performer as $perf) {

<item> 
<title><php? echo ".$perf->attributes()->Name ."?></title> 
<description><php? echo " .$perf->Descriptions->About ."?></description> 
<link><php? echo "<a href='http://www.example.com        /cam/".$perf->attributes()->Name."    /?AFNO=X-0-XXXXXX-XXXXXX&UHNSMTY=XXX?></link> 
</item> 
</channel>
</rss>
?>

possible duplicate of Making a dynamic RSS feed from external XML file - Please do not duplicate your existing question only because you haven't had an answer so far. Instead edit your previous question and improve it. And if I may add: After you describe what you intend to do, also write in your own words with what exactly (the small problem) you got stuck. That should give you better pointers. — hakre

Moonchild Moonchild · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-18T16:01:09

As you already have an XML source and want another XML result, maybe you could try XSLT to directly convert it.

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/

generating an RSS Feed from remote xml data

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