Displaying RSS Feed with PHP
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Displaying RSS Feed with PHP

This article explains to displaying RSS(XML format) feed like popurls.com (popular urls in one place) using simplexml_load_file() a PHP function. It's very useful to display your blog feeds as like Recent articles(headlines) list.

RSS- Really Simple Syndication.

Reading XML data and presenting with HTML.

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Index.php RSS display page:
File contains HTML tags and PHP included rssclass.php. You have to change the RSS feed URL.
<div>
  <?php
  include('rssclass.php');
  $feedlist = new rss('http://feeds2.feedburner.com/9lesson');
  echo $feedlist->display(9,"9lessons");
 
  $feedlist = new rss('http://feeds.feedburner.com/nettuts');
  echo $feedlist->display(9,"Nettuts");
 
  $feedlist = new rss('http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol');
  echo $feedlist->display(9,"Labnol");
  ?> 
  </div>
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rssclass.php
A beautiful PHP function simplexml_load_file() to load and read XML file. simplexml_load_string() XML string reader.
<?php
 class rss {
     var $feed;

  function rss($feed) 
    {   $this->feed = $feed;  }
 
  function parse() 
    {
    $rss = simplexml_load_file($this->feed);
    
    $rss_split = array();
    foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {
    $title = (string) $item->title; // Title
    $link   = (string) $item->link; // Url Link
    $description = (string) $item->description; //Description
    $rss_split[] = '<div>
        <a href="'.$link.'" target="_blank" title="" >
            '.$title.' 
        </a>
   <hr>
          </div>
';
    }
    return $rss_split;
  }
  function display($numrows,$head) 
  {
    $rss_split = $this->parse();

    $i = 0;
    $rss_data = '<div class="vas">
           <div class="title-head">
         '.$head.'
           </div>
         <div class="feeds-links">';
    while ( $i < $numrows ) 
   {
      $rss_data .= $rss_split[$i];
      $i++;
    }
    $trim = str_replace('', '',$this->feed);
    $user = str_replace('&lang=en-us&format=rss_200','',$trim);
    $rss_data.='</div></div>';
    return $rss_data;
  }
}
?>

CSS code :
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.vas{
    float:left;
    width:270px;
    padding:10px;
}
.title-head {
    font-size:18px;
    font-weight:bold;
    text-align:left;
    background-color:#006699;
    color:#FFFFFF;
    padding:5px;}
.feeds-links {
    text-align:left;
    padding:5px;
    border:1px solid #dedede;
 }
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34 comments:

  1. Thanks man. I'm looking for something like this..

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  2. thanks, this script is very usefull :)

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  3. hello my friend

    your script is "VeryMuchBonito"
    BUT
    necesito agregar Item->description

    I modify display()
    and OK

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  4. hello and I say great resource; is it possible to parse Flickr rss with this class? Thank You for answer me!

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  5. Thanks , I recenlty moved from Joomla & Wordpress to jquery powered HTML pages, and I was looking for a script to display RSS XML Feeds in a Web Page Using PHP Functions.

    I hope search engines crawl these links.

    Following you on twitter now
    Masoom : @imasoom

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  6. Hello, the script only shows the Title of the rss feed. Is there any way we can display the content of the posts? I am trying to embed all my blog posts, in a webpage, so it looks and feels like a part of the site.

    Masoom

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  7. Hello, is it possible to fetch image also with title and link.

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  8. How can I get the MEDIA:THUMBNAIL-URL from the item using this codes format?

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  9. very good simple script....how do limit description length....I would like to keep under 100.

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  10. but when rss feeds of many websites were to display all together, then the webpage loading time increases and it loads very slow.

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  11. how can I fetch Images with this code

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  12. Thank you so much! This is so easy to implement and style...appreciate your generosity. :)

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  13. May i ask you something? I think the "description" item from xml Schema is useless. I mean the below line of your code.The description of every article never appears at any div. Am i wrong?

    $description = (string) $item->description; //Description

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  14. how can i get feed url of any sides

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  15. Very good script!
    How can I add the posting date before the singles feeds?
    and if I wanted to show all the feed of different sites in a row in a single column?..

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  18. I tried the script out on my server and it does not work like the live demo. Is there anything I may have done wrong?

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  19. Please help me.. This is script is showing on my localhost. But not on my server. Is there any way to run this script.. Please help

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  20. Excellent thanks! I have a question though, is it possible to have the different feeds going through one table. What I mean is, in the example you have 3 different feeds, each displaying on it's own table - instead of each one having it's own table is it possible to just merge them and sort them by date?

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  21. Thanks alot helping me to do it!
    I want to know
    How can i display the summary of the article underneath the article title link?
    Thank you!

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  22. Its Fine...I Have one Doubt..How to display Most common news in all feeds..

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  23. possible to use paging?

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  24. very good article,i used this code in codeigniter framework but does not work, not fetching rss feeds in my local system.
    i made small change in your code simply moved rssclass.php file to libraries folder and called as below in my view
    load->library('rssclass');
    $this->rssclass->rss('http://feeds2.feedburner.com/9lesson');
    echo $this->rssclass->display(9,"9lessons");

    ?>

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  25. Excellent entry! I'm been looking for topics as interesting as this.

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  26. how we fetch data from https://dfid.blog.gov.uk/feed/atom/ using this script currently its shows noting.

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  27. this is a good reference. is it possible for me to display the time and date the posts were made?

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