A while back I wrote up a quick PHP script for RSS parsing. Earlier today I decided to wrap it in a nice easily-customizable class. You can see it in action here. You can either download the code here or just copy and paste it from below:
<?php
class RSSParser {
var $insideitem = false;
var $tag = "";
var $title = "";
var $description = "";
var $link = "";
var $num = 0;
var $before_item = "<li>"; //default before
var $after_tem = "</li>"; //default after
function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
if($this->insideitem) {
$this->tag = $name;
}
else if($name == "ITEM") {
$this->insideitem = true;
}
}
function endElement($parser, $name) {
if ($name == "ITEM") {
printf("$this->before_item<a href='%s'>%s</a>$this->after_tem",trim($this->link),htmlspecialchars(trim($this->title)));
$this->title = "";
$this->description = "";
$this->link = "";
$this->insideitem = false;
$this->num++;
}
}
function characterData($parser, $data) {
if($this->insideitem) {
switch($this->tag) {
case "TITLE":
$this->title .= $data;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION":
$this->description .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$this->link .= $data;
break;
}
}
}
function RSSParser($feed,$numitems,$before = "<li>",$after = "</li>") {
$this->num = 0;
$this->before_item = $before;
$this->after_item = $after;
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_object ($xml_parser, $this );
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
$fp = fopen($feed,"r") or die("Error reading RSS data. Click <a href=$feed>here</a> to view it (with rss reader).");
while (($data = fread($fp, 4096)) && ($this->num < $numitems)) {
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)) or die("Error parsing RSS data. Click <a href=$feed>here</a> to view it (with rss reader).");
}
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
}
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<ul>
<?php
$parser = new RSSParser("http://feeds.feedburner.com/Nusuni/",10); //default vals for before and after are <li> and </li>, no need to enter them
?>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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