(new to php) Need help parsing an RSS feed

pseud · August 3, 2012

I wrote a small PHP script to parse an RSS feed, but it's giving results that are 1 day old, even though the latest one on the RSS feed is around 5 hours old. Could you say what I'm doing wrong please?

Here is the RSS feed: http://gumclan.org?action=.xml;type=rss

Here is the page of mine that has the script behind it: http://gumclan.org/pseud/

And here is the code:

http://pastebin.com/iLfKAqrW

Thanks!

pseud · August 3, 2012

Sorry, but no replies so I'm bumping. Hope there's no rule against it

pseud · August 6, 2012

Please can someone help me here? I need this to work!

PFMaBiSmAd · August 6, 2012

People are not going to visit sites/links you put in your post just to see your code or to see what the input data is or what the wrong output is.

Post your code in the forum's

bbcode tags, post an example of the input data, post the resulting output that corresponds to that data, and identify exactly what is wrong with that output.

pseud · August 6, 2012

Okay - I'll do that.

This is the RSS feed:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<rss version="0.92" xml:lang="en-US">
<channel>
	<title>Grand United Military</title>
	<link>http://gumclan.org/index.php</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Live information from Grand United Military]]></description>
	<item>
		<title>Re: Low Land Lions vs Fnatic.MSI</title>
		<link>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14412#msg14412</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14411#msg14411">Quote from: Furial on <strong>Today</strong> at 11:08:08 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14410#msg14410">Quote from: BeastR on <strong>Today</strong> at 11:05:15 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_alternate_quote"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14406#msg14406">Quote from: fryz0 on <strong>Today</strong> at 10:20:26 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">[quote author=BeastR link=topic=1452....</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>]]></description>
		<author>lurtz833@hotmail.com</author>
		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>
		<comments>http://gumclan.org/index.php?action=post;topic=1452.0</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:27:09 GMT</pubDate>
		<guid>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14412#msg14412</guid>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Re: Low Land Lions vs Fnatic.MSI</title>
		<link>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14411#msg14411</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14410#msg14410">Quote from: BeastR on <strong>Today</strong> at 11:05:15 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14406#msg14406">Quote from: fryz0 on <strong>Today</strong> at 10:20:26 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_alternate_quote"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14400#msg14400">Quote from: BeastR on <strong>Today</strong> at 06:04:42 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">noob teams specially lighters  all bi...</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>]]></description>
		<author>furial2_robin@live.nl</author>
		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>
		<comments>http://gumclan.org/index.php?action=post;topic=1452.0</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:08:08 GMT</pubDate>
		<guid>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14411#msg14411</guid>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Re: Low Land Lions vs Fnatic.MSI</title>
		<link>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14410#msg14410</link>
		<description>
<![CDATA[<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14406#msg14406">Quote from: fryz0 on <strong>Today</strong> at 10:20:26 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14400#msg14400">Quote from: BeastR on <strong>Today</strong> at 06:04:42 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_alternate_quote">noob teams specially lighters  all big noobs bait each other 0 skill cheters<br /></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br />fnatic.MSI may bey noob...</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>]]>
		</description>
		<author>lurtz833@hotmail.com</author>
		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>
		<comments>http://gumclan.org/index.php?action=post;topic=1452.0</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:05:15 GMT</pubDate>
		<guid>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14410#msg14410</guid>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Re: What song are you listening to right now?</title>
		<link>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=591.msg14408#msg14408</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vPVlGWhk0LA&rel=1&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="never" wmode="transparent" width="425px" height="350px"><noembed><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPVlGWhk0LA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPVlGWhk0LA</a></noembed></embed>]]></description>
		<author>furial2_robin@live.nl</author>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<comments>http://gumclan.org/index.php?action=post;topic=591.0</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:03:14 GMT</pubDate>
		<guid>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=591.msg14408#msg14408</guid>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>Re: Low Land Lions vs Fnatic.MSI</title>
		<link>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14407#msg14407</link>
		<description>
<![CDATA[<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14406#msg14406">Quote from: fryz0 on <strong>Today</strong> at 10:20:26 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14400#msg14400">Quote from: BeastR on <strong>Today</strong> at 06:04:42 AM</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_alternate_quote">noob teams specially lighters  all big noobs bait each other 0 skill cheters<br /></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br />fnatic.MSI may bey noob...</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>]]>
		</description>
		<author>furial2_robin@live.nl</author>
		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>
		<comments>http://gumclan.org/index.php?action=post;topic=1452.0</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
		<guid>http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14407#msg14407</guid>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

This is what the page shows

Recent Topics

Title: Re: Promod map overview.
  Category: General Promod Talk
   Link: Re: Promod map overview.
Publish date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:59:47 GMT

Title: Re: Promod map overview.
  Category: General Promod Talk
   Link: Re: Promod map overview.
Publish date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:38:02 GMT

Title: Re: Promod map overview.
  Category: General Promod Talk
   Link: Re: Promod map overview.
Publish date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:02:23 GMT

Title: Re: Promod map overview.
  Category: General Promod Talk
   Link: Re: Promod map overview.
Publish date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:53:53 GMT

Title: Re: Promod map overview.
  Category: General Promod Talk
   Link: Re: Promod map overview.
Publish date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:52:45 GMT

And this is the script

<h3>Recent Topics</h3>
<?php




//Set new DOMDocument and load the RSS feed with it.
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('http://gumclan.org?action=.xml;type=rss');

//Set count variable to limit amount of items shown with RSS
//$i = 0;

//For each <item> in the RSS feed:
foreach($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $docItem)
{
    //Fill up an array with all of the written tags
    $docArray = array(
        'title' => $docItem->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
        'link' => $docItem->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue,
        'category' => $docItem->getElementsByTagName('category')->item(0)->nodeValue,
        'pubDate' => $docItem->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue
    );
    
    //Display the information in chosen format
    echo('Title: ' . $docArray['title'] . '<br />
      Category: ' . $docArray['category'] . '<br />
       Link: <a href="' . $docArray['link'] . '">' . $docArray['title'] . '</a><br />
    Publish date: ' . $docArray['pubDate'] . '<br /><br />');
    
   /* //Increment $i
    $i++;
    
    //If $i passes >2, stop the loop. This will stop it at 3 items
    if ($i > 2) {break;}*/
}

Barand · August 6, 2012

From the feed data you gave I get this (dates and titles as in the data)

Title: Re: Low Land Lions vs Fnatic.MSI

Category: Multimedia

Link: http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14412#msg14412

Pub Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:27:09 GMT

Title: Re: Low Land Lions vs Fnatic.MSI

Category: Multimedia

Link: http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14411#msg14411

Pub Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:08:08 GMT

Title: Re: Low Land Lions vs Fnatic.MSI

Category: Multimedia

Link: http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14410#msg14410

Pub Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:05:15 GMT

Title: Re: What song are you listening to right now?

Category: Music

Link: http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=591.msg14408#msg14408

Pub Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:03:14 GMT

Title: Re: Low Land Lions vs Fnatic.MSI

Category: Multimedia

Link: http://gumclan.org/index.php?topic=1452.msg14407#msg14407

Pub Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:00:16 GMT

from this code

$xml = simplexml_load_file('rss1.xml');

foreach($xml->xpath('//item') as $i) {
    echo "
    Title:    $i->title
    Category: $i->category 
    Link:     $i->link
    Pub Date: $i->pubDate\n";
}

pseud · August 6, 2012

Oh okay, thanks, DOMDocument isn't working properly then.

Cheers, I'll do it your way

(EDIT)

Wait, something's wrong here - not sure what. I'm still getting old results, even with your method. What could be causing this? It's the same in both Chrome and Firefox

PFMaBiSmAd · August 6, 2012

I'm still getting old results

Exactly what are you getting (we cannot help with anything unless you show us what exactly it is) and have you confirmed if the rss data at the specific time the problem occurred is correct or not?

I'm going to guess that your input data is incorrect, possibly because of the php time zone setting vs the time zone where you and your browser are at.

pseud · August 6, 2012

I'm still getting old results

Exactly what are you getting (we cannot help with anything unless you show us what exactly it is) and have you confirmed if the rss data at the specific time the problem occurred is correct or not?

I'm going to guess that your input data is incorrect, possibly because of the php time zone setting vs the time zone where you and your browser are at.

Aha, that would make sense actually, do you know how I can work around that?

Thanks

PFMaBiSmAd · August 6, 2012

Not until you actually identify where and what the problem is.

So far, you haven't even stated what it is about the date and/or the items being displayed that leads you to believe that they are not correct. Are the date and items wrong or is the date correct, but the items are from the previous day?

pseud · August 6, 2012

The results on my script are from the previous day whereas the ones on the actual XML file are more recent, I said in my first post

Barand · August 6, 2012

Surely in this case the pubDate is just a string and not dependent on zone settings. Even the titles you had in your results don't match the RSS data you posted!

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