lmandrake

Hello, I'm a total PHP newbie and am hoping someone can help me with some code which I can't seem to get to work. I have magpie RSS installed on my server and am trying to use it to display data from an RSS xml feed, in a specific way. I managed to get a crude version to work which would only display the title of the article as a link to the original page. I am trying to get something more advanced so that the php code pulls, the title, link of the article, date and then part of the description and displays it as: <a href="link">title</a>, month/day/year -- "description" <a href="link">title</a>, month/day/year -- "description" etc.. I would also like to be able to limit the size of the description to the first 100 characters. Can anyone help? Thanks!! Here's my coding attempt: