Generating RSS 2.0 with SimpleXML in PHP

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<?php 
$link=mysql_pconnect($db['write']['host'],$db['write']['user'],$db['write']['pass']) or die ("Could not connect to datadase"); 
mysql_select_db($db['write']['name']) or die ("could not select database");
//patharray is an essentially an exploded $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] 
//for articles rss feeds it would be /rss/articles/categoryname 
//so $patharray[0]='rss', $patharray[1]='articles' and $patharray[2]='categoryname' 

const('SITENAME','Example.com'); 
const('WEBMASTER','test@example.com (test@example.com)'); 

if (isset($patharray[2])) { 
$feedname='New articles in '.categorysafetoreal($patharray[2]);
 } else { 
$feedname='New articles on '.SITENAME; 
} 

$base='http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; 
$itunesns='http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'; 
$atomns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'; 
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" />'); 

//main page 
$channel = $xml->addChild('channel'); 

//atom link - google balks at it... so lets remove it if its google reading it. 
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) and (!stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'google'))) {
$atomlink=$channel->addChild('link','',$atomns); 
$atomlink->addAttribute('href',$base.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); 
$atomlink->addAttribute('rel',"self"); 
$atomlink->addAttribute('type',"application/rss+xml"); } 

//rss 2.0 stuff 
$channel->addChild('link',$base.'/'); 
$channel->addChild('pubDate',gmdate('r')); 
$channel->addChild('language','en-us'); 
$channel->addChild('generator','Example.com (http://www.technomonk.com)'); 
$channel->addChild('webMaster',WEBMASTER); 
$channel->addChild('description',SITENAME.' - '.$feedname); 
$channel->addChild('title',$feedname); 

//itunes 
if ($script=='podcast') { 
$owner=$channel->addChild('owner','',$itunesns); 
$owner->addChild('email',WEBMASTER,$itunesns); 
$owner->addChild('name','Example.com',$itunesns); 
$cat=$channel->addChild('category','',$itunesns); 
$cat->addAttribute('text','Technology'); 
$subcat=$cat->addChild('category','',$itunesns); 
$subcat->addAttribute('text','Computers'); 
$channel->addChild('explicit','no',$itunesns); 
$channel->addChild('author',SITENAME,$itunesns); 
} 

if ($patharray[1]=='articles') { 
if (isset($patharray[2])) { 
$query="select author.*, article.summary, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(article.created) as created, article.articleid, article.pagename, article.articletitle, category.categoryname, article.summary from article, author, category where article.authorid=author.authorid and article.categoryid=category.categoryid and category.categorysafename='".mysql_real_escape_string($patharray[2])."' order by article.created DESC limit 10"; 
} else { 
$query="select author.*, article.summary, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(article.created) as created, article.articleid, article.pagename, article.articletitle, category.categoryname, article.summary from article, author, category where article.authorid=author.authorid and article.categoryid=category.categoryid order by article.created DESC limit 10"; 
} 
$result=mysql_query($query); if ($result) { 
while ($line=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { 
$item = $channel->addChild('item'); 
$item->addChild('link',$base.'/article/'.$line['pagename']); 
$item->addChild('pubDate',gmdate('r',$line['created'])); 
$item->addChild('title',htmlentities($line['articletitle'])); 
$item->addChild('description',htmlentities($line['summary'])); 
$item->addChild('guid',$base.'/guid/article/'.$line['articleid']); 
} 
} 
} 

//blogentries 
$query=sprintf("select blogentry.*,unix_timestamp(blogentry.modified) as modified, unix_timestamp(blogentry.postdate) as postdate, blogattachment.filename, blogattachment.filesize, blogattachment.mimetype, blogcategory.categoryname from (blogentry left join blogattachment on blogentry.id=blogattachment.entryid), blogcategory where blogentry.postdate<now() and blogentry.categoryid=blogcategory.id and blogcategory.categoryname='%s' order by blogentry.created desc limit 20",mysql_real_escape_string($script)); 
$result=mysql_query($query); 

if ($result) { 
while ($line=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { 
$item = $channel->addChild('item'); 
$entryurl=htmlentities(strtolower(str_replace(' ','-',$line['title']))); $item->addChild('link',$base.'/'.$line['categoryname'].'/id/'.$line['id'].'/'.$entryurl); $item->addChild('pubDate',gmdate('r',$line['postdate'])); 
$item->addChild('title',$line['title']); 
if (!empty($line['filename'])) { 
$encl=$item->addChild('enclosure',''); 
$encl->addAttribute('url',$line['filename']); 
$encl->addAttribute('length',$line['filesize']); 
$encl->addAttribute('type',$line['mimetype']); } 
$item->addChild('description',htmlentities($line['body'])); 
$item->addChild('guid',$base.'/guid/blog/'.$line['id']); 
} 
} 

header('Content-type: text/xml'); 
$output=$xml->asXML(); 
echo $output; 
?>