Generate RSS feed for files in a directory folder. Put this file in a folder with files, modify the $allowed_ext variable to customize your extensions, and $feedName, $feedDesc, $feedURL, and $feedBaseURL. Then navigate to the folder on the web to see the xml feed. Done!

index.php

<?php
header('Content-type: text/xml');
/*
	Runs from a directory containing files to provide an
	RSS 2.0 feed that contains the list and modification times for all the
	files.

*/
$feedName = "My Audio Feed";
$feedDesc = "Feed for the my audio files in some server folder";
$feedURL = "http://www.mysite.com/audio";
$feedBaseURL = "http://www.mysite.com/audio/"; // must end in trailing forward slash (/).

$allowed_ext = ".mp4,.MP4,.mp3,.MP3";

?><<?= '?'; ?>xml version="1.0"<?= '?'; ?>>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
	<channel>
		<title><?=$feedName?></title>
		<link><?=$feedURL?></link>
		<description><?=$feedDesc?></description>
		<atom:link href="http://gogglesoptional.com/bloopers" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<?php
$files = array();
$dir=opendir("./");

while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)  
{  
	$path_info = pathinfo($file);
	$ext = strtoupper($path_info['extension']);

	if($file !== '.' && $file !== '..' && !is_dir($file) && strpos($allowed_ext, $ext)>0)  
	{  
		$files[]['name'] = $file;  
		$files[]['timestamp'] = filectime($file);
	}  
}  
closedir($dir);
// natcasesort($files); - we will use dates and times to sort the list.

for($i=0; $i<count($files); $i++) {
	if($files[$i] != "index.php") {
          if (!empty($files[$i]['name'])) {
		echo "	<item>\n";
		echo "		<title>". $files[$i]['name'] ."</title>\n";
		echo "		<link>". $feedBaseURL . $files[$i]['name'] . "</link>\n";
		echo "		<guid>". $feedBaseURL . $files[$i]['name'] . "</guid>\n";
                echo "          <pubDate>". date(DATE_RSS, $files[$i]['timestamp']) ."</pubDate>\n";
//		echo "		<pubDate>". date("D M j G:i:s T Y", $files[$i]['timestamp']) ."</pubDate>\n";
//		echo "		<pubDate>" . $files[$i]['timestamp'] ."</pubDate>\n";

		echo "    </item>\n";
	  }
	}
}
?>
	</channel>
</rss>

Thank you for pointing me in right direction, @strukturart :)

I've found simplest solution here:
https://www.w3schools.com/xml/rss_tag_image.asp

not tested but this might work if the cover image is always called cover.jpg: https://gist.github.com/strukturart/9a42a18c78fa44c6929bfdd3d46be0f4#file-rss-php-L23

Sharing this here in case anyone's interested, I took some time recently to write a more comprehensive RSS feed script for audiobooks. It takes care to read the title, author, cover image and other metadata from the MP3/M4B files. I've written a blog post about it and how to get it running on a Synology NAS, and the script's at the bottom of the post. Hope that helps, and shout if you have any problems getting it running.

@kzar thanks!

I added this for my private feed hosted on traffic limited server, to not get listed by public podcast indexes:

after <channel>

  echo '  <itunes:block>yes</itunes:block>' . "\n";

if you also add this, it will be refused to be added in mobile podcast apps (ios podcasts, android google podcasts), and it will only work in third party apps:

echo '  <googleplay:block>yes</googleplay:block>' . "\n";

sources: http://support.megaphone.fm/en/articles/2700280-itunes-and-google-block-tags https://support.google.com/podcast-publishers/answer/9889544?hl=en https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4871937

Oh great, glad you found it useful. Thanks for the hint about blocking the indexes, I just have my feed hosted in my local network so I haven't run into that problem! I've made a couple more improvements to the script now, so it handles M4B files as well and I have corrected a bug with the cover image logic.

How can Limit number of items?
Example: Show last 10Feed (datatime)

How can Limit number of items?
Example: Show last 10Feed (datatime)

Well, if you're using my script there's an array $book_details that contains all the book details, that's then passed to the outputRSS function (see the outputRSS($book_details); line). You could just use array_slice (or similar) to shorten that array before passing it through to outputRSS.

does anyone know of an ompl editor written in php?

I tried the script but I have some very odd thing.
The key thing is that the timestamp is always now() instead of the file timestamp.

And I don't seem to understand how the array is working. Adding something like $files[]['comment'] always returns an empty value.

Not much PHP work done the last few years so I need a reminder of somethings that might seem too silly to mention.

@hvdkooij
perhaps try my version https://gitlab.com/dewijones92/dot-files/-/blob/master/serverconfig/code/server_docker/php_files/index.php
put your files in /files

Hello! After switching from Apache to Caddy web server, I can't get rss to work. Podcast app sees files, but it always gives an error when i try to downloader the file. Is it possible that I am missing some specific part of php engine?

Hmm, seems to be quite a few bugs with this. I also got 'this feed contains no entries'. Key problem is that the feed creates <link> entries for each item, but no <enclosure> tags which also requires size and filetype.

Here's what I ended up with. I also changed the array code which was really messed up, and not actually adding unique entries for the dates of each file, and fixed the pathinfo code.

limitation though: No intelligent code for filetype. It just returns the same string every time.

<?php
$items = array();
$sub = "";
$dir=opendir("./".$sub);

while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
{
        $ext = strtoupper(pathinfo($sub.$file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION));
        if($file !== '.' && $file !== '..' && !is_dir($file) && $ext !== '' && strpos($allowed_ext, $ext)>0)
        {
                $item['name'] = $sub.$file;
                $item['timestamp'] = filectime($sub.$file);
                $item['size'] = filesize($sub.$file);
                $items[] = $item;
        }
}
closedir($dir);
// natcasesort($files); - we will use dates and times to sort the list.
foreach($items as $item) {
        if($item['name'] != "index.php") {
          if (!empty($item['name'])) {
                echo "  <item>\n";
                echo "          <title>". $item['name'] ."</title>\n";
                echo "          <enclosure url='". $feedBaseURL . $item['name']. "' length='" . $item['size'] . "' type='video/mp4' />\n";
                echo "          <guid>". $feedBaseURL . $item['name'] . "</guid>\n";
                echo "          <pubDate>". date(DATE_RFC822, $item['timestamp']) ."</pubDate>\n";
                //echo "                <pubDate>" . $files[$i]['timestamp'] ."</pubDate>\n";
                echo "    </item>\n";
          }
        }
}
?>

`

@davet2001

Hey man,

Is there a way to contact you?

I kinda wanna request your help with the github code that you are familiar with:
https://gist.github.com/vsoch/4898025919365bf23b6f

I can't seem to make it work for my website..

I would appreciate it if you can leave an email so I can ask you about it.

Thanks in advance!

@lumibliss Yeah that was a long time ago, I can’t say I’m super familiar with it now, but I’ll try to help where I can!
Are you able to read debug output from the PHP server?