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chris9902

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Hi all. It's monday and my brain no wants to work good!

Making a very basic RSS reader and I want to limit the amount of data in an Array to say 10 stories.

here is the code so far.

[code]$xml[] = 'http://digg.com/rss/index.xml';
$xml[] = 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml';

function get_RSS($url)
{
$RSS = simplexml_load_file($url);

echo '<h1><a href="' . $RSS->channel->link . '">' . $RSS->channel->title . '</a></h1>';

foreach ($RSS->channel->item as $article)
{
echo '<ul>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="title"><a href="' . $article->link . '">' . $article->title . '</a></li>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="description">' . $article->description . '</li>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="pubDate">' . $article->pubDate . '</li>' . "\n";
echo '</ul>' . "\n\n";
}
}

get_RSS($xml[0]);

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so right now it takes digg's feed and prints all the headlines but i want to limit it to 10. How can I do that?

cheers :)
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The cheap and nasty way would be as follows

[code]
$xml[] = 'http://digg.com/rss/index.xml';
$xml[] = 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml';

function get_RSS($url, $limit = 10)
{
$RSS = simplexml_load_file($url);

echo '<h1><a href="' . $RSS->channel->link . '">' . $RSS->channel->title . '</a></h1>';
$current = 0;

while ($current < $limit) {
foreach ($RSS->channel->item as $article)
{
echo '<ul>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="title"><a href="' . $article->link . '">' . $article->title . '</a></li>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="description">' . $article->description . '</li>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="pubDate">' . $article->pubDate . '</li>' . "\n";
echo '</ul>' . "\n\n";
$current++;
}
}
}

get_RSS($xml[0]);
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However if you want 10 headlines in total (from all your feeds) you should change the get_RSS function to return an array instead of printing the results out and then use that array to generate your display (you can limit the array, sort it, etc).
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How about this

[code]
$xml[] = 'http://digg.com/rss/index.xml';
$xml[] = 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml';

function get_RSS($url)
{
$RSS = simplexml_load_file($url);

$channel["link"] = $RSS->channel->link;
$channel["title"] = $RSS->channel->title;

$index = 0;
foreach ($RSS->channel->item as $article)
{
$channel["article"][$index]["link"] = $article->link;
$channel["article"][$index]["title"] = $article->title;
$channel["article"][$index]["description"] = $article->description;
$channel["article"][$index]["pubDate"] = $article->pubDate;
$index++;
}

return $channel;
}

$feed = get_RSS($xml[0]);

echo '<h1><a href="' . $feed["link"] . '">' . $feed["title"] . '</a></h1>';

for ($i=0; $i<10; $i++) {
echo '<ul>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="title"><a href="' . $feed["article"][$i]["link"] . '">' . $feed["article"][$i]["title"] . '</a></li>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="description">' . $feed["article"][$i]["description"] . '</li>' . "\n";
echo '  <li class="pubDate">' . $feed["article"][$i]["pubDate"] . '</li>' . "\n";
echo '</ul>' . "\n\n";
}

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