im a noobie but yeah here goes..

[diamondandy]

basically below is the 2 sets of coding, im trying to make an rss feed appear on the page, but for each headline i would like to have an image appear :) bullet.gif basically and it to appear for any headline that gets made after that...

any ideas for the coding and where to put it?
muchos appreciated :D

andy =)

[b]On the main index.php:[/b]
[code]<?php
// Include the file that does all the work
include("info/rssreader.php");

// This is the URL to the actual RSS feed. Change this value
// if you want to show a different feed.
$url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/PP";

// Create an instance of the rssFeed object, passing it
// the URL of the feed
$rss=new rssFeed($url);

// If there was an error getting the data
if($rss->error){
// Show the error
print "<h1>Error:</h1>\n<p><strong>$rss->error</strong></p>";
}else{

// Otherwise, we have the data, so we call the parse method
$rss->parse();


// Show the news stories
$rss->showStories();
}
?>[/code]



[b]and rssreader.php:[/b]
[code]<?php
/*

File: rssreader.php
Author: Gary White
Last modified: May 2, 2005

June 21, 2005 - Added some minor error handling updates

May 2, 2005 - Modified again to drop using cURL library and
instead use direct socket i/o. This eliminates any external
server configuration dependencies.

Apr 21, 2005 - Modified to use cURL library instead of
file_get_contents function. This class now has a dependency
in that the curl library must be enabled on the server.

Copyright (C) 2005, Gary White

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details at:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Typical usage:

include("rssreader.php");
$url="http://www.wired.com/news/feeds/rss2/0,2610,,00.xml";
$rss=new rssFeed($url);
if($rss->error){
print "<h1>Error:</h1>\n<p><strong>$rss->error</strong></p>";
}else{
$rss->parse();
$rss->showHeading("h1");
if($rss->link){
print "<p>Provided courtesy of:<br>\n";
print "<a href=\"$rss->link\">$rss->link</a>\n";
}
$rss->image->show("middle");
$rss->showDescription();
$rss->showStories();
}


rssFeed: object
Purpose: Creates an rssFeed class that allows easy display of RSS data.

Public Methods:
parse Parses the XML and populates properties with the resulting data
showHeading Displays the title
showImage Displays the image associated with the feed
showLink Displays a link to the RSS provider
showDescription Displays the feed description
showStories Displays the feed items

Public Properties:
title: The title of the RSS feed
copyright: The copyright information included in the RSS feed
description: The description included in the RSS feed
image An instance of an rssImage object (see below)
stories An array of newsStory objects (see below)
url The URI of the RSS feed
xml The raw XML data obtained from the feed
error A text description of the most recent error encountered
maxstories The maximum number of stories to show (zero = no limit)

rssImage: object
Purpose: Creates a class to store information about an image for an RSS feed

Public Methods:
show Displays the image

Public Properties:
title The image title, used for ALT attribute
url The URL of the image
link The URL that the image should link to
width The image width in pixels
height The image height in pixels

newsStory: object
Purpose: Creates a class to store an news story in an RSS feed

Public Methods:
show Displays the story

Public Properties:
show Displays the story
title The headline associated with the story
link The link to the full story
description A short description, or teaser, of the story
pubdate Date/Time the story was published

*/

//classes follow

// Generic container for the complete RSS feed
class rssFeed{
var $title="";
var $copyright="";
var $description="";
var $image;
var $stories=array();
var $url="";
var $xml="";
var $link="";
var $error="";
var $maxstories=6;

// public methods
function parse(){
$parser=xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($parser, "characterData");
xml_parse($parser, $this->xml, true)
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($parser)));
xml_parser_free($parser);
}

function showHeading($tag=""){
$tag=$tag?$tag:"h3";
if($this->title)
print "<$tag>$this->title</$tag>\n";
}

function showImage($align=""){
$this->image->show($align);
}

function showLink(){
if($this->link)
print "<a href=\"$this->link\">$this->link</a>\n";
}
function showDescription(){
if($this->description)
print "<p>$this->description</p>\n";
}

function showStories(){
echo "<dl>\n";
$n=0;
foreach($this->stories as $story){
$n++;
if ($this->maxstories && $n>$this->maxstories)
break;
$story->show();
}
echo "</dl>\n";
}

// Methods used internally
// Constructor: Expects one string parameter that is the URI of the RSS feed
function rssFeed($uri=''){
$this->image=new rssImage();
if($uri){
$this->url=$uri;
$this->getFeed();
} else {
$this->error="No URL for RSS feed";
}
}

// Retrieves the XML from the RSS supplier
function getFeed(){
// if we have a URL
if ($this->url){
if (extension_loaded('curl')) {
$this->xml=$this->getRemoteFile($this->url);
}
}
}

function getRemoteFile($url){
$s=new gwSocket();
if($s->getUrl($url)){
if(is_array($s->headers)){
$h=array_change_key_case($s->headers, CASE_LOWER);
if($s->error) // failed to connect with host
$buffer=$this->errorReturn($s->error);
elseif(preg_match("/404/",$h['status'])) // page not found
$buffer=$this->errorReturn("Page Not Found");
elseif(preg_match("/xml/i",$h['content-type'])) // got XML back
$buffer=$s->page;
else // got a page, but wrong content type
$buffer=$this->errorReturn("The server did not return XML. The content type returned was ".$h['content-type']);
} else {
$buffer=$this->errorReturn("An unknown error occurred.");
}
}else{
$buffer=$this->errorReturn("An unknown error occurred.");
}
return $buffer;
}

function errorReturn($error){
$retVal="<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n".
"<rss version=\"2.0\">\n".
"\t<channel>\n".
"\t\t<title>Failed to Get RSS Data</title>\n".
"\t\t<description>An error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: $error</description>\n".
"\t\t<pubdate>".date("D, d F Y H:i:s T")."</pubdate>\n".
"\t\t<lastbuilddate>".date("D, d F Y H:i:s T")."</lastbuilddate>\n".
"\t</channel>\n".
"</rss>\n";
return $retVal;
}

function addStory($o){
if(is_object($o))
$this->stories[]=$o;
else
$this->error="Type mismatach: expected object";
}

}

class rssImage{
var $title="";
var $url="";
var $link="";
var $width=0;
var $height=0;

function show($align=""){
if($this->url){
if($this->link)
print "<a href=\"$this->link\">";
print "<img src=\"$this->url\" style=\"border:none;\"";
if($this->title)
print " alt=\"$this->title\"";
if($this->width)
print " width=\"$this->width\" height=\"$this->height\"";
if($align)
print " align=\"$align\"";
print ">";
if($this->link)
print "</a>";
}
}
}

class newsStory{
var $title="";
var $link="";
var $description="";
var $pubdate="";

function show(){
if($this->title){
if($this->link){
echo "<dt><a href=\"$this->link\">$this->title</a></dt>\n";
}elseif($this->title){
echo "<dt>$this->title</a></dt>\n";
}
echo "<dd>";
if($this->pubdate)
echo "<i>$this->pubdate</i> - ";
echo "</dd>\n";
}
}
}


class gwSocket{
var $Name="gwSocket";
var $Version="0.1";
var $userAgent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)";
var $headers;
var $page="";
var $result="";
var $redirects=0;
var $maxRedirects=3;
var $error="";

function getUrl( $url ) {
$retVal="";
$url_parsed = parse_url($url);
$scheme = $url_parsed["scheme"];
$host = $url_parsed["host"];
$port = $url_parsed["port"]?$url_parsed["port"]:"80";
$user = $url_parsed["user"];
$pass = $url_parsed["pass"];
$path = $url_parsed["path"]?$url_parsed["path"]:"/";
$query = $url_parsed["query"];
$anchor = $url_parsed["fragment"];

if (!empty($host)){

// attempt to open the socket
if($fp = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 2)){

$path .= $query?"?$query":"";
$path .= $anchor?"$anchor":"";

// this is the request we send to the host
$out = "GET $path ".
"HTTP/1.0\r\n".
"Host: $host\r\n".
"Connection: Close\r\n".
"User-Agent: $this->userAgent\r\n";
if($user)
$out .= "Authorization: Basic ".
base64_encode("$user:$pass")."\r\n";
$out .= "\r\n";

fputs($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$retVal.=fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
} else {
$this->error="Failed to make connection to host.";//$errstr;
}
$this->result=$retVal;
$this->headers=$this->parseHeaders(trim(substr($retVal,0,strpos($retVal,"\r\n\r\n"))));
$this->page=trim(stristr($retVal,"\r\n\r\n"))."\n";
if(isset($this->headers['Location'])){
$this->redirects++;
if($this->redirects<$this->maxRedirects){
$location=$this->headers['Location'];
$this->headers=array();
$this->result="";
$this->page="";
$this->getUrl($location);
}
}
}
return (!$retVal="");
}

function parseHeaders($s){
$h=preg_split("/[\r\n]/",$s);
foreach($h as $i){
$i=trim($i);
if(strstr($i,":")){
list($k,$v)=explode(":",$i);
$hdr[$k]=substr(stristr($i,":"),2);
}else{
if(strlen($i)>3)
$hdr[]=$i;
}
}
if(isset($hdr[0])){
$hdr['Status']=$hdr[0];
unset($hdr[0]);
}
return $hdr;
}

}

/*
end of classes - global functions follow
*/

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $isimage;
$tag = $name;
if($name=="IMAGE")
$isimage=true;
if ($name == "ITEM") {
$insideitem = true;
}
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
global $insideitem, $title, $description, $link, $pubdate, $stories, $rss, $globaldata, $isimage;
$globaldata=trim($globaldata);
// if we're finishing a news item
if ($name == "ITEM") {
// create a new news story object
$story=new newsStory();
// assign the title, link, description and publication date
$story->title=trim($title);
$story->link=trim($link);
$story->description=trim($description);
$story->pubdate=trim($pubdate);
// add it to our array of stories
$rss->addStory($story);
// reset our global variables
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$pubdate = "";
$insideitem = false;
} else {
switch($name){
case "TITLE":
if(!$isimage)
if(!$insideitem)
$rss->title=$globaldata;
break;
case "LINK":
if(!$insideitem)
$rss->link=$globaldata;
break;
case "COPYRIGHT":
if(!$insideitem)
$rss->copyright=$globaldata;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION":
if(!$insideitem)
$rss->description=$globaldata;
break;
}
}
if($isimage){
switch($name){
case "TITLE": $rss->image->title=$globaldata;break;
case "URL": $rss->image->url=$globaldata;break;
case "LINK": $rss->image->link=$globaldata;break;
case "WIDTH": $rss->image->width=$globaldata;break;
case "HEIGHT": $rss->image->height=$globaldata;break;
}
}
if($name=="IMAGE")
$isimage=false;
$globaldata="";
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $pubdate, $globaldata;
if ($insideitem) {
switch ($tag) {
case "TITLE":
$title .= $data;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION":
$description .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$link .= $data;
break;
case "PUBDATE":
case "DC:DATE":
$pubdate .= $data;
break;
}
} else {
$globaldata.=$data;
}
}

?>[/code]

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