Pulling in an rss feed..

[chelnov63]

hi there..im struggling a bit and not sure how to pull in an rss feed using php and display it in a table:

 

for e.g consider http://blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=84825413

 

how using php should i pull this in... or do i need a third party component or prebuilt classes to parse the XML? thanks in advance..i tried googling and stuff but cant seem to find an answer  .. any tips advice would really be appreciated..thanks

[DarkWater]

Check out the PHP SimpleXML extension, as it makes XML parsing relatively...well...simple. xD

 

P.S:  I'm finally back from vacation.

[chelnov63]

thanks for your advice...

 

I'm trying this:

 

<?php
$source = 'http://blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=84825413';

// load as file
$sitemap = new SimpleXMLElement($source,null,true);

foreach($sitemap as $item)
{
echo "{$item->title}";
}
?>

 

I expected all the item titles to be displayed but all i get is:

 

Nick Harrison - MySpace Blog

 

Do you have any idea where i am going wrong... thanks for your help mate

[Naez]

Check out tutorials on DOMdocument

[chelnov63]

thanks i've been trying lol ... got a deadline in half an hour ... if someone could give me just a quick pointer how to retrieve titles then i could do the rest ..cheers!!!

[chelnov63]

got it figured no worries:

 

<?php
$source = 'http://blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=84825413';
// load as file
$sitemap = new SimpleXMLElement($source,null,true);


// Here we'll put a loop to include each item's title and description
foreach ($sitemap->channel->item as $item) {
  echo "$item->title<br>";

}
?>