[SOLVED] Netflix RSS Display in blog

[williwaw]

Hi all,

 

I have been trying to add my Netfilx rss account que to my blog with no success.  I am able/allowed to post script/code in my post so I am not to sure what the problem is?  So far this is the code that I have but can't seem to get it to work:

<?php
        //$url should be the url of the Netflix RSS feed you want to display
    $url = 'http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1010797477721215285005042368212862';
    if ( $url ) {
    $rss = fetch_rss( $url );
    echo “<p>”;
    echo “My ” . $rss->channel['title'] . “</p>”;
    echo “<ul>”;
    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {
    $href = $item['link'];
    $title = $item['title'];
    echo “<li><a href=$href>$title</a></li>”;
    }
    echo “</ul>”;
    }
?>

 

Thanks for taking the time to look!

 

Cheers,

Williwaw

[spfoonnewb]

You just have a single sytax error, however I don't have "fetch_rss" on my server.

 

<?php
//$url should be the url of the Netflix RSS feed you want to display
$url = 'http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1010797477721215285005042368212862';

if ( $url )
{
$rss = fetch_rss( $url );
echo "<p>My {$rss->channel['title']}</p>";
echo "<ul>";
foreach ($rss->items as $item)
{
	echo "<li><a href={$item['link']}>{$item['title']}</a></li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
}
?>

[williwaw]

Thanks for the help.

 

Apperantly I don't have fetch_rss on my server either...I will get this to work someday

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_rss() in /homepages/42/d157514244/htdocs/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()'d code on line 7

 

Thanks again for your help!

 

Cheers,

Williwaw

[spfoonnewb]

Try this:

 

<?php
//$url should be the url of the Netflix RSS feed you want to display
$url = 'http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1010797477721215285005042368212862';

if ( $url )
{
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
echo "<p>My {$xml->channel->title}</p>";

echo "<ul>";
foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item)
{
	echo "<li><a href={$item->link}>{$item->title}</a></li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
}
?>

[williwaw]

Hmmm, 1&1 shared server...dhun, dhun, dhun.  I guess they have the 'simple_load_file' function disabled

 

Thanks again for your time.

 

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /homepages/42/d157514244/htdocs/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 7

Warning: simplexml_load_file(http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1010797477721215285005042368212862) [function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /homepages/42/d157514244/htdocs/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 7

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1010797477721215285005042368212862" in /homepages/42/d157514244/htdocs/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 7

My

      Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/42/d157514244/htdocs/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 11 

 

Interesting...my info.php() shows

• 
  SimpleXML
  Simplexml support enabled
  Revision $Revision: 1.151.2.22.2.40 $
  Schema support enabled
  

 

 

Cheers

[spfoonnewb]

Generally done for security reasons, but CURL is usually still an option. Try this:

 

<?php
//$url should be the url of the Netflix RSS feed you want to display
$url = 'http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1010797477721215285005042368212862';

if ( $url )
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$feed = curl_exec($ch); //Output saved as variable
curl_close($ch);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($feed);

echo "<p>My {$xml->channel->title}</p>";

echo "<ul>";
foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item)
{
	echo "<li><a href={$item->link}>{$item->title}</a></li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
}
?>

 

Edit: That function is also not disabled, it the allow_url_fopen stuff. You can use the function it just can't be from an external site, it has to be a relative location.

[williwaw]

Excellent it works very well!!! Thank you very much! I will to give u props on my install...

/*This would not of been possible without the expert programming of spfoonnewb at www.phpfreaks.com*/
<?php
//$url should be the url of the Netflix RSS feed you want to display
$url = 'http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1010797477721215285005042368212862';

if ( $url )
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$feed = curl_exec($ch); //Output saved as variable
curl_close($ch);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($feed);

echo "<p>My {$xml->channel->title}</p>";

echo "<ul>";
foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item)
{
	echo "<li><a href={$item->link}>{$item->title}</a></li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
}
?>

 

Thanks again.

 

Cheers,

Williwaw