Sebastiano Bellinzis

hi, normally when I need to fetch an RSS feed in private project I used some old script based on the php function fopen. But with my current Host (Dreamhost) fopen is dissables for various security reason, they however adviced to use the cURL library, I wasn’t familiar with it but after some reading and testing I’ve build an super small feedreader, well see for yourself . (Oh and you need to have the XML parser module installed on your server).

if (isset($_GET["url"]) and $_GET["url"] != "" ) {   $url = $_GET["url"];
$t=0;
$buff="";
if(isset($_GET["name"]) && $_GET["name"] != "" ? $name = $_GET["name"] : $name = "Feed" );
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$xml = simplexml_load_string(curl_exec ($curl));

foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item){
if ($t < 5 ){
$buff.= "<li id=\"lastfm_li\"><a href=\"$item->link\">$item->title</a></li>\n";
$t++;
}
}
curl_close ($curl);
$content.="<div id=\"feed_div\"><p id=\"boxheader\">".$name."</p>\n";
$content.="<ul id=\"feed_ul\">\n";
$content.= $buff;
$content.="</ul>\n";
$content.="</div>\n";

echo $content;
}

Usage.

Save the file on the server call it like this

http://someserver.com/yourfile.php?url=http://urltofeed.com/feed
optional is the name for the feed.

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Tags: feed, feedreader, php, reader, tutorial