PHP RSS Parser missing nodes?

[raydowe]

I need a php expert.

 

I am more of a flash coders so I'm having problems here. I am trying to convert an rss feed (muskokarunning.blogspot.com/atom.xml) to html with php. For some reason that I can't comprehend, the first 3 posts, or 'item' tags are completely ignored! I have tried about 3 'premade' rss parsers, and then wrote my own from scratch, and it's the same thing every time!  I have it working in flash fine, so i'm not sure whats going on. Can anyone notice something wrong with my code or with the tags?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

function blogparse($file)
{
  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  $doc->load( $file );

  $items = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "item" );

$i = 0;
foreach( $items as $item)
{
	$title = $item->getElementsByTagName( "title" );
	$titles[$i] = $title->item(0)->nodeValue;

	$description = $item->getElementsByTagName( "description" );
	$descriptions[$i] = $description->item(0)->nodeValue;

	$link = $item->getElementsByTagName( "link" );
	$links[$i] = $link->item(0)->nodeValue;

	$i++;
};

$finalstring = '';

for ($a=0; $a<count($titles); $a++)
{
                $finalstring .= '<a href="'.$links[$a].'">';
	$finalstring .= "<h1>".$titles[$a]."</h1></a>";
	$finalstring .= "<p>".$descriptions[$a]."</p>";
};

  return($finalstring);

};
  
$parser = blogparse('http://muskokarunning.blogspot.com/atom.xml');
echo($parser);

 

 

[DarkWater]

Just use SimpleXML instead of DOM.

[raydowe]

Just use SimpleXML instead of DOM.

 

Thanks for your comment.

 

I took your advice and made another version of the script with simpleXML, but it's doing the SAME THING! I have no idea why this is happening, and would be forever grateful if anyone could give me some insight, or manage to get it working somehow. I feel like I have tried everything at this point, and I'm all out of ideas...

 

Here is my latest attempt

<?php
function blogparse($file)
{
if(!$xml=simplexml_load_file('http://muskokarunning.blogspot.com/atom.xml'))
{
	trigger_error('Error reading XML file',E_USER_ERROR);
}

$finalstring = '';

$channel = $xml->channel;

$items = $channel->item;

foreach($items as $item)
{	
	$name = $item->getName();

	if($name = 'item')
	{
		$finalstring .= '<a href="'. $item->link . '">';
		$finalstring .= '<h1>' . $item->title . '</h1></a>';
		$finalstring .= '<p>' . $item->description . '</p>';
	}
}
  return($finalstring);
}

$parseresult = blogparse('http://muskokarunning.blogspot.com/atom.xml');
echo($parseresult);

?>