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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 :
Style just view the Live Demo

.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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This post about feedback mail with nice slide effect using php SMTP class and jQuery. It's very useful to add your php websites as like contact/feedback page.

I have downloaded this SMTP class from phpclasses.org. Include with jQuery Slide effect just you have to upload these files into hosting server.

Feedback page with slide effect.

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You have to add this jquery script in feedback.php:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/
1.3.0/jquery.min.js">type="text/javascript" </script>
 
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
 
 $(".button-slide").click(function(){

  $("#board").slideToggle("slow");
  $(this).toggleClass("active"); return false;

 });
  
});
</script>

feedback.php
Contains simple PHP and HTML script. You have to change feedback email id.

<?php
require ("smtpclass.php");
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST")
 {
$smtp=new SMTPMAIL;

$from=$_POST['email']; 
$body=$_POST['msg']; 
$to="Admin<[email protected]>";

$cc="";
$subject="Feedback Mail";
 
  if(!$smtp->send_smtp_mail($to,$subject,$body,$cc,$from))

 $error="Error in sending mail!<BR>Error: ".$smtp->error;
  else
 $report="Mail sent succesfully!";
}
?>
<div style="display: none;" id="board" align="center"><br />
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">

  Your Email : <input type="text" name="email" size="25"/>
  Message :<textarea name="msg"  rows="5" cols="23"></textarea>

  <input type="submit" value=" Send " />
  <?php echo $report; echo $error; ?>

  </form></div>
<div align="center"><a href="#" class="button-slide">
Feedback </a></div>

SMTPclass.php
Upload this file into your hosting space. No need to touch this code it's automatically detects your website SMTP mail address.

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CSS Code :
Include this CSS code in feedback.php.

#board {
  background:#dedede;
 height: 205px;display: none;
  width: 300px;border-bottom: solid 4px #006699;
  position:absolute;
 }
.button-slide {
 text-align: center;background-color:#006699;
  width: 94px;height: 21px;
  padding: 6px 6px 0 0;margin: 0 auto;display: block;
  font: bold 120%/100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  color: #fff;text-decoration: none;
 position:fixed;
}