Create XML in PHP

<?php

// THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL - DO NOT FORGET TO SET THIS
@date_default_timezone_set("GMT");

$writer = new XMLWriter();
// Output directly to the user

$writer->openURI('php://output');
$writer->startDocument('1.0');

$writer->setIndent(4);

// declare it as an rss document
$writer->startElement('rss');
$writer->writeAttribute('version', '2.0');
$writer->writeAttribute('xmlns:atom', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom');


$writer->startElement("channel");
//----------------------------------------------------
//$writer->writeElement('ttl', '0');
$writer->writeElement('title', 'Latest Products');
$writer->writeElement('description', 'This is the latest products from our website.');
$writer->writeElement('link', 'http://www.domain.com/link.htm');
$writer->writeElement('pubDate', date("D, d M Y H:i:s e"));
$writer->startElement('image');
$writer->writeElement('title', 'Latest Products');
$writer->writeElement('link', 'http://www.domain.com/link.htm');
$writer->writeElement('url', 'http://www.iab.net/media/image/120x60.gif');
$writer->writeElement('width', '120');
$writer->writeElement('height', '60');
$writer->endElement();
//----------------------------------------------------



//----------------------------------------------------
$writer->startElement("item");
$writer->writeElement('title', 'New Product 8');
$writer->writeElement('link', 'http://www.domain.com/link.htm');
$writer->writeElement('description', 'Description 8 Yeah!');
$writer->writeElement('guid', 'http://www.domain.com/link.htm?tiem=1234');

$writer->writeElement('pubDate', date("D, d M Y H:i:s e"));

$writer->startElement('category');
$writer->writeAttribute('domain', 'http://www.domain.com/link.htm');
$writer->text('May 2008');
$writer->endElement(); // Category

// End Item
$writer->endElement();
//----------------------------------------------------


// End channel
$writer->endElement();

// End rss
$writer->endElement();

$writer->endDocument();

$writer->flush();
?>

Limit Text and Strip tags in PHP

$content = $post->post_content;

$limit = 280;

if (strlen($content) > $limit)

$content = substr($content, 0, strrpos(substr($content, 0, $limit), ' ')) . '...';

echo strip_tags($content);

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