Just had to create a quick RSS parser for PHP and thought I'd post my solution. The implementation and class follows.
<?php $rss = new RSSReader('http://news.google.com/?output=rss'); while ($rss -> hasNext()) print_r($rss -> next()); ?>
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<?php class RSSReader { var $xml = null; var $pos = 0; var $count = 0; function __construct($feed_url) { $this -> load_url($feed_url); } function load_url($feed_url) { $this -> load_string(file_get_contents($feed_url)); } function load_string($feed_string) { $this -> xml = simplexml_load_string(str_replace('content:encoded', 'content_encoded', $feed_string)); $this -> pos = 0; $this -> count = count($this -> xml -> channel -> item); } function get_title() { return $this -> xml -> channel -> title; } function get_link() { return $this -> xml -> channel -> link; } function get_pubdate() { return $this -> xml -> channel -> pubdate; } function hasNext() { return $this -> count > $this -> pos; } function next() { $obj = $this -> xml -> channel -> item[$this -> pos++]; return array( 'title' => (string) $obj -> title, 'link' => (string) $obj -> link, 'description' => (string) $obj -> description, 'content' => (string) $obj -> content_encoded, 'pubDate' => strtotime($obj -> pubDate), ); } } ?>
Thank you for this post ..
Here is another php parser http://bncscripts.com/free-php-rss-parser/
RSS feeds are really great because you are always updated with the latest news or blog posts..”~