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Showing posts with label RSS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RSS. Show all posts
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Generate RSS Feed with PHP.

This post explains how to create RSS feed for web projects with PHP. It's simple code just you have to include the basic RSS stucture in while loop.



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>
Popurls.com screen shot

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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