Getting Content by RSS Feed, Explained??

[mckennaronnie]

Hi,

Please could somebody Explain to me how i get Content onto my website using a RSS Feed, i have tried searching the internet for a decent tutorial but always ended confused.
Its 1st time i've ever looked into RSS feeds and im confused, any advice would be great.

I found the Feed i wanted, followed the Link and it gives me a page of Code :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
<title>SkySports.com - Premiership</title>
<link>http://home.skysports.com</link>
<copyright>Copyright(C) 2006 BSkyB</copyright>
<language>en-gb</language>
- <description>
- <![CDATA[ Premiership
]]>
</description>
<ttl>10</ttl>
<lastBuildDate>Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:40:13 GMT</lastBuildDate>
- <item>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
<title>Wenger seeks Cole resolution</title>
- <description>
- <![CDATA[ Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger wants Ashley Cole's future resolved within a week.
]]>
- <![CDATA[ <p></p>
]]>
- <![CDATA[ <a href="http://adserver.adtech.de/?adlink|500|1074815|0|1|AdId=1152476;BnId=1;itime=981252290;key=

and so it continues.

I read Online that i may Need a RSS to Html Converor (or something similar) To give me the Html to enter onto the place i want Feeds.

Im Lost, Please send advice or Tutorial Link Please!!

 

[Noobie]

what you need is an RSS parser.
Depending on what language your website is running you can google search it like so:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-31,GGLJ:en&q=php+rss+parser

 

[mckennaronnie]

I tried searching for Html Rss Parser and got plenty of results, though i still cant work it!
I tried a few of the results, downloaded programs i was told too - but im still not sure.

I hope that it will suddenly just click! Im sure im missing something simple and not understanding it correctly but i just dont know what im doing.

Maybe RSS Feeds just arent for me.

Thanks Anyway for advice, i will plug away and see if i can work it out

 

[Keral_Patel]

JSX2 is my favorite one.

 

[mckennaronnie]

Cheers, i'll give that a look

 

[Keral_Patel]

Okay friend wrong window wrong post the previous one. Sorry about that.

Here is the code that I use normally.

<?php
set_time_limit(0);
//Enter the URL of RSS feed in the line below
$file = "http://theurlofrsshere";
$rss_channel = array();
$currently_writing = "";
$main = "";
$item_counter = 0;
function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
   	global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main;
   	switch($name) {
   		case "RSS":
   		case "RDF:RDF":
   		case "ITEMS":
   			$currently_writing = "";
   			break;
   		case "CHANNEL":
   			$main = "CHANNEL";
   			break;
   		case "IMAGE":
   			$main = "IMAGE";
   			$rss_channel["IMAGE"] = array();
   			break;
   		case "ITEM":
   			$main = "ITEMS";
   			break;
   		default:
   			$currently_writing = $name;
   			break;
   	}
}
function endElement($parser, $name) {
   	global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $item_counter;
   	$currently_writing = "";
   	if ($name == "ITEM") {
   		$item_counter++;
   	}
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
	global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main, $item_counter;
	if ($currently_writing != "") {
		switch($main) {
			case "CHANNEL":
				if (isset($rss_channel[$currently_writing])) {
					$rss_channel[$currently_writing] .= $data;
				} else {
					$rss_channel[$currently_writing] = $data;
				}
				break;
			case "IMAGE":
				if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing])) {
					$rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing] .= $data;
				} else {
					$rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing] = $data;
				}
				break;
			case "ITEMS":
				if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing])) {
					$rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] .= $data;
				} else {
					$rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] = $data;
				}
				break;
		}
	}
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
	die("could not open XML input");
}

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
	if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
		die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
					xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
					xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
	}
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

// output HTML

if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"]))
{
echo "<font face='Verdana' size='2' color='#333333'>";
if (count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]) > 0)
{
for($i = 0;$i < count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]);$i++)
{
if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"]))
{
echo "<a href=\"" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"] . "\">" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"] . "</a><br>";
}
else
{
echo $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"];
}
echo $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["DESCRIPTION"] . "<p> </p>";
}
}
else
{
echo "<b>There are no articles in this feed.</b>";
}
echo "</font>";
}
?>

Disclaimer: The above code is not mine. And I am not even claiming to have invented the code. Its derived from some free open source system. But I am a n00b and have forgot the scripts name.

Thanks.

If you want to use caching of the RSS feeds then let me know I have written another code this time myself for it. :D

 

[Wybe]

lol nick_mayhem I recognize that piece of code but I forgot the name of it too :D thanks though because it works and it's not too complicated, I found it once but deleted it thinking i found something better, only to be left empty-handed