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This code scrambles the Title, Description and Link results so that the Description regularly comes up earlier than the Title and Link. I suspect that it's in the function createHtmlFromRSSUrl. It's old code, but really usefull from 2008 and ScarySoftware who apparently met their demise. Anyone? <?php // // ScarySoftware RSS parser // Copyright © 2006 Scary Software // ( Generates HTML from a RSS feeds ) // // Licensed Under the Gnu Public License // class rssReader { var $rssFeeds; // Class constructor function rssReader() { // Here are the feeds - you can add to them or change them $this->rssFeeds = array( 0 => "http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?keyword=%28quilting+machine%2Cquilt+sewing+machine%29&sortOrder=BestMatch&programid=1&campaignid=xxxxxx0101&toolid=10039&customid=QRSS&listingType1=All&lgeo=1&feedType=rss", ); } function checkCache($rss_url) { $ttl = 60*60;// 60 secs/min for 60 minutes = 1 hour(360 secs) $cachefilename = md5(md5($rss_url)); if (file_exists($cachefilename) && (time() - $ttl < filemtime($cachefilename))) { $feed = file_get_contents($cachefilename); } else { $feed = file_get_contents($rss_url); $fp = fopen($cachefilename, 'w'); fwrite($fp, $feed); fclose($fp); } return $feed; } // // Creates HTML from a FeedID in the array // it makes $howmany entries // function createHtmlFromFeed($feedid, $howmany) { // Now we make sure that we have a feed selected to work with $rss_url = $this->rssFeeds[$feedid]; if (!isset($rss_url)) $rss_url = $this->rssFeeds[$feedid]; $howmany = intval($howmany); $this->createHtmlFromRSSUrl( $rss_url, $howmany ); } // // Create HTML from an RSS URL // it makes $howmany entires // function createHtmlFromRSSUrl( $rss_url, $howmany ) { // Now we get the feed and cache it if necessary $rss_feed = $this->checkCache($rss_url); // Now we replace a few things that may cause problems later $rss_feed = str_replace("<![CDATA[", "", $rss_feed); $rss_feed = str_replace("]]>", "", $rss_feed); $rss_feed = str_replace("\n", "", $rss_feed); // If there is an image node remove it, we aren't going to use // it anyway and it often contains a <title> and <link> // that we don't want to match on later. $rss_feed = preg_replace('#<image>(.*?)</image>#', '', $rss_feed, 1 ); // Now we get the nodes that we're interested in preg_match_all('#<title>(.*?)</title>#', $rss_feed, $title, PREG_SET_ORDER); preg_match_all('#<description>(.*?)</description>#', $rss_feed, $description, PREG_SET_ORDER); preg_match_all('#<link>(.*?)</link>#', $rss_feed, $link, PREG_SET_ORDER); // // Now that the RSS/XML is parsed.. Lets Make HTML ! // // If there is not at least one title, then the feed was empty // it happens sometimes, so lets be prepared and do something // reasonable if(count($title) <= 1) { echo "No items at present, please check back later.<br><br>"; } else { // OK Here we go, this is the fun part // Well do up the top 3 entries from the feed for ($counter = 1; $counter <= $howmany; $counter++ ) { // We do a reality check to make sure there is something we can show if(!empty($title[$counter][1])) { // Then we'll make a good faith effort to make the title // valid HTML $title[$counter][1] = str_replace("&", "&", $title[$counter][1]); $title[$counter][1] = str_replace("'", "'", $title[$counter][1]); $title[$counter][1] = str_replace("£", "?", $title[$counter][1]); // The description often has encoded HTML entities in it, and // we probably don't want these, so we'll decode them $description[$counter][1] = html_entity_decode( $description[$counter][1]); // Now we make a pretty page bit from the data we retrieved from // the RSS feed. Remember the function FormatRow from the // beginning of the program ? Here we put it to use. $row = $this->FormatEntry($title[$counter][1],$description[$counter][1],$link[$counter][1]); // And now we'll output the new page bit! echo $row; } } } } function FormatEntry($title, $description, $link) { return <<<eof <p class="feed_title">{$title}</p> <p class="feed_description">{$description}</p> <a class="feed_link" href="{$link}" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more...</a> <hr size=1> eof; } function GetrssFeeds() { return $this->rssFeeds; } function SetrssFeeds($rssFeeds) { $this->rssFeeds = $rssFeeds; } }// END OF THE CLASS ?>