RSS feeds in php

[daveh33]

I have a RSS feed which I want to use php to display the information correctly e.g make url hyperlinks

 

below is the current output - how can I do this?

 

<rss version="2.0">
−
<channel>
<title>Mobile Search API</title>
−
<link>
/search/api/v1/Entry.aspx?uid=11&st=free%20chat&count=10&ua=MOT-V500
</link>
−
<description>
Monetised mobile search results from API parameters
</description>
<openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults>
<openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
<openSearch:itemsPerPage>10</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
−
<item>
<title>Chat - Free Chat Community</title>
−
<link>
http://www.mcproton.com/Search/API/v1/Click.aspx?mct=f28a17hd09203ghe&mca=ChooseAd&mci=-1g245
</link>
−
<description>
For More Cool Stuff - Free Chat - Chat with people around the world - GO CHAT... 
</description>
<mc:resultType>B</mc:resultType>
</item>
−
<item>

[daveh33]

Never used RSS before

 

is there a simple way to get  the <title> </title> ? & same with description & link

[tinker]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/quickcode_cats/24/RSS-&-Syndication.php

[daveh33]

many thanks - I have used that tutorial to write the below code - but it just displays a blank screen

<?php
$url = "xxx";
function RSSreader($url)

{

$rssstring = file_get_contents($url);

preg_match_all("#<title>(.*?)</title>#s",$rssstring,$titel);   


preg_match_all("#<item>(.*?)</item>#s",$rssstring,$items);   

$n=count($items[0]);

for($i=0;$i<$n;$i++)

    {

    $rsstemp= $items[0][$i];

    preg_match_all("#<title>(.*?)</title>#s",$rsstemp,$titles);   

    $title[$i]= $titles[1][0];

    preg_match_all("#<pubDate>(.*?)</pubDate>#s",$rsstemp,$dates);  

    $date[$i]= $dates[1][0]; 

    preg_match_all("#<link>(.*?)</link>#s",$rsstemp,$links);   

    $link[$i]= $links[1][0];

    preg_match_all("#<description>(.*?)</description>#s",$rsstemp,$links);   

    $description[$i]= $description[1][0];

    }    



echo "<h2>".$title[1][0]."</h2>";

    for($i=0;$i<$n;$i++)

    {

        $timestamp=strtotime($date[$i]);

        $datum=date('d-m-Y H\hi', $timestamp);    

       if(!empty($title[$i])) echo $datum."\t\t\t <a href=".$link[$i]." target=\"_blank\">".$title[$i]."</a><br>$description[$i]";

    }

}
?> 

 

The RSS feed has:-

 

item

title

link

description

 

Can anyone see where I am going wrong?

 

[nikefido]

you hid the $url variable from us, right?

 

it isn't actually

$url = "xxx";

in your own code?