Password protected RSS feeds with account verification - rss

Question

We're doing a site with user generated RSS feeds which can be viewed by other users who we accounts and are verified by the source user. Is there an RSS package for php around that has password protection available that's easy to tie into a user database?

Answer 1

if the RSS file name is rss.php then you can check in the php before generating XML if the user is authenticated or not !

Answer 2

RSS feeds can be protected using HTTP authentication. where you can use the following URL to access rss:
http://username:password#example.com/rss.php
you can allow acccess to the file by one of these methods:
.htaccess
using http authentication with PHP

Answer 3

You, on the database, create a unique key for all users.
id username rss_key
1 user_a 49f0bad29968
2 user_b 1f2414c23a7d
3 user_c 9bc46e8e52ad
Your RSS Link:
http://example.com/rss.php?Key=1f2414c23a7d
You pair the key value with the user.
<?php
$GetKey = addslashes($_GET['Key']);
//Other Rules --- Example: if(empty($GetKey)) { echo "error"; exit(); }
include("connect.php"); //Your connection file
include("session.php"); //Your session file
$Username = $User['username']; //in session file
$Match = Mysqli_Fetch_Array(Mysqli_Query($con, "SELECT u.rss_key AS 'RSSKey' WHERE user_table_name AS u WHERE u.username='".$Username."'");
if($Match['RSSKey'] !== $GetKey)
{
//Stop page
exit();
}
else{
//Your RSS Code...
}
?>