How to create a user specific RSS feed

  1. Get latest version of Views node feed, for now its just a dev version a bit hidden here http://drupal.org/node/271269/release, views_node_feed-6.x-1.x-dev
  2.  Install Views Node Feed at admin/build/modules
  3. If you have an WYSIWYG editor, exclude it from:
    admin/settings/views_node_feed/add.edit-wrapper
    admin/settings/views_node_feed/add.edit-node
    admin/settings/views_node_feed/edit*
  4. Go to admin/settings/views_node_feed and create a node
       feed to specify the format your feed will be in.

    Wrapper Template:


    <rss version="2.0">
       <channel>
          <title>My Site</title>
          <link>http://www.mysite.net</link>
          <description><?php print $pressroom_desc;?></description>
          <webMaster>me@mysite.net (My Site)</webMaster>
    ***VIEWS_NODE_FEED_ITEMS***
      </channel>
    </rss>

    Node template:


    <?php
    global $base_url;
    if(!empty(    $node->footer)){
          $footer = "<p>".$node->footer;
    }
    ?>
    <item>
    <title><?php print(htmlspecialchars($node->title));?></title>
    <link><?php print $base_url."/".$node->path;?></link>
    <description>
      <?php print(htmlspecialchars ($node->body .$footer));?></description>
    <pubDate><?php print(date("D, j M Y G:i:s", $node->created));?> CST</pubDate>
    </item>
  5. Create a view that you will use to populate your feed with nodes. You can sort and filter these nodes just as you regularly would with views. The view should provide a page.
Knowledge keywords: 
RSS
Drupal 6.x