RSS Marquee HEEEELP!

[BoarderLine]

Hi all, I am displaying the marquee below on my site which is operating fine however as it is currently the marquee only displays a single feed item in the marquee (when set to display 10 at once as indicated the first displays ok and the remaining 9 are scrolling below), does anyone have any clue how I would change this code to link the feed items into a single marquee/line/string.  Thanks.

 

<marquee>	<?PHP

$MAXLINKCOUNT = 10; // (* 2) if =10, 5 news items will show
$MAX_DESC_CHARS = 120;

$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$linkcount = 0;

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
$tag = $name;
} elseif ($name == "ITEM") {
$insideitem = true;
}
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {

global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $linkcount, $MAXLINKCOUNT, $MAX_DESC_CHARS;
if ($name == "ITEM" && $linkcount <= $MAXLINKCOUNT) {
if (strlen($description) > $MAX_DESC_CHARS) {
$description = wordwrap($description, $MAX_DESC_CHARS, "-=CUT OFF HERE=-");
$pos = strpos($description, "-=CUT OFF HERE=-");
$description = trim(substr($description, 0, $pos)) . "...";
}
$description = htmlspecialchars(trim($description));
$description = str_replace("&quot;", """, $description);
printf("<dt><b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b></dt>", trim($link),htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));
printf("<dt>%s</dt><br>",$description);
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$insideitem = false;
}
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $linkcount;
if ($insideitem) {
switch ($tag) {
case "TITLE":
$title .= $data;
break;
case "DESCRIPTIon":
$description .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$link .= $data;
$linkcount++;
break;
}
}
}
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
$fp = fopen("http://tvnz.co.nz/content/455321/rss_20_skin.xml", "r")
or die("Error reading rss data.");
while ($data = fread($fp, 2048)) {
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp));
}
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

?></marquee>

[haku]

Honestly, you should just drop it. Marquees went out of style in the '90s.

[BoarderLine]

im bringing them back - anyone else???

[haku]

Good luck 

[Mchl]

<marquee> ? What's that? I can't see it in (X)HTML specification.

[haku]

That's because it's been deprecated. It's a presentational tag, and XHTML is for content only, not presentation. Same reason there is no font tag, or bold tag, or underline tag.

[Mchl]

Tsk, tsk... haku... I know that

 

BoarderLine: if you really feel like doing a marquee, use JavaScript and CSS.

[PravinS]

You want like this, try this updated code

 

 

<marquee behavior="scroll" scrollamount="5"> <?PHP

 

$MAXLINKCOUNT = 10; // (* 2) if =10, 5 news items will show

$MAX_DESC_CHARS = 120;

 

$insideitem = false;

$tag = "";

$title = "";

$description = "";

$link = "";

$linkcount = 0;

 

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {

global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;

if ($insideitem) {

$tag = $name;

} elseif ($name == "ITEM") {

$insideitem = true;

}

}

 

function endElement($parser, $name)

{

 

global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $linkcount, $MAXLINKCOUNT, $MAX_DESC_CHARS;

 

 

if ($name == "ITEM" && $linkcount <= $MAXLINKCOUNT)

{

if (strlen($description) > $MAX_DESC_CHARS)

{

$description = wordwrap($description, $MAX_DESC_CHARS, "-=CUT OFF HERE=-");

$pos = strpos($description, "-=CUT OFF HERE=-");

$description = trim(substr($description, 0, $pos)) . "...";

}

$description = htmlspecialchars(trim($description));

$description = str_replace("&quot;", """, $description);

printf("<td><b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b></td>", trim($link),htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));

printf("<td>%s</td>",$description);

$title = "";

$description = "";

$link = "";

$insideitem = false;

}

 

}

 

function characterData($parser, $data) {

global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $linkcount;

if ($insideitem) {

switch ($tag) {

case "TITLE":

$title .= $data;

break;

case "DESCRIPTIon":

$description .= $data;

break;

case "LINK":

$link .= $data;

$linkcount++;

break;

}

}

}

 

print('<table cellpadding="3"><tr>');

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");

xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

$fp = fopen("http://tvnz.co.nz/content/455321/rss_20_skin.xml", "r")

or die("Error reading rss data.");

while ($data = fread($fp, 2048)) {

xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp));

}

fclose($fp);

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

print('</tr></table>');

?></marquee>

[BoarderLine]

AWesome pbs you rule - Thats perfect, thanks for your HELP

[BoarderLine]

Mchl- Wouldn't the RSS feed content be lost to search engines using Javascript???

[haku]

Depends on how you code it. If you put the text in non-marqueed, then add javascript to give it the marquee effect after the fact, search engines will still be able to index it.