PHP - A Little Help With Php And Rss Feeds?

Hi, I kow this is probably something simple, but i have 2 links to a RSS feed which i need to put up on a web page. Not just a link, but the actual feed rendered with a number of news headlines.

One is a ".rss2.XML" link
and the ither is a html link.

the HTML i suppose is static, so probably not any good.

thanks in advance

Hello everyone,

I am having problem trying to fetch data from certain feeds.  The problem is, the feeds aren't just using XML or just atom, it is a combo of both.

Here is an example of YouTube's feed:
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:yt='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007'><id>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/qzUuAIPPrGQ</id><published>2010-11-02T15:10:24.000Z</published><updated>2010-11-04T22:09:22.000Z</updated><category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat' term='Film' label='Film &amp; Animation'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='mysteryguitarman'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='mystery'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='guitar'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='man'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='mgm'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='joe'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='penna'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='jp'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='balinese'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='bali'/><category scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat' term='instruments'/><title type='text'>Bali Instruments</title><content type='text'>Behind the Scenes: http://bit.ly/BehindTheScenesBali

Click to Tweet: http://bit.ly/ClickToTweetBali

Watch my other videos:
http://www.youtube.com/MysteryGuitarMan

My second channel:
http://www.youtube.com/jp

Twitter's cool... right?
http://www.twitter.com/MysteryGuitarM

Send me things:

Mystery Guitar Man
PO Box 2966
Hollywood, CA 90078

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Portuguese: http://youtube.com/ands159</content><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzUuAIPPrGQ&amp;feature=youtube_gdata'/><link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.responses' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/qzUuAIPPrGQ/responses'/><link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/qzUuAIPPrGQ/related'/><link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#mobile' type='text/html' href='http://m.youtube.com/details?v=qzUuAIPPrGQ'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/qzUuAIPPrGQ'/><author><name>MysteryGuitarMan</name><uri>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/mysteryguitarman</uri></author><gd:comments><gd:feedLink href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/qzUuAIPPrGQ/comments' countHint='10222'/></gd:comments><media:group><media:category label='Film &amp; Animation' scheme='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat'>Film</media:category><media:content url='http://www.youtube.com/v/qzUuAIPPrGQ?f=videos&amp;app=youtube_gdata' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' medium='video' isDefault='true' expression='full' duration='123' yt:format='5'/><media:content url='rtsp://v6.cache6.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQlkrM-DAC41qxMYDSANFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp' type='video/3gpp' medium='video' expression='full' duration='123' yt:format='1'/><media:content url='rtsp://v3.cache7.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQlkrM-DAC41qxMYESARFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp' type='video/3gpp' medium='video' expression='full' duration='123' yt:format='6'/><media:description type='plain'>Behind the Scenes: http://bit.ly/BehindTheScenesBali

Click to Tweet: http://bit.ly/ClickToTweetBali

Watch my other videos:
http://www.youtube.com/MysteryGuitarMan

My second channel:
http://www.youtube.com/jp

Twitter's cool... right?
http://www.twitter.com/MysteryGuitarM

Send me things:

Mystery Guitar Man
PO Box 2966
Hollywood, CA 90078

-Subtitles-
Portuguese: http://youtube.com/ands159</media:description><media:keywords>mysteryguitarman, mystery, guitar, man, mgm, joe, penna, jp, balinese, bali, instruments</media:keywords><media:player url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzUuAIPPrGQ&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player'/><media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qzUuAIPPrGQ/2.jpg' height='90' width='120' time='00:01:01.500'/><media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qzUuAIPPrGQ/1.jpg' height='90' width='120' time='00:00:30.750'/><media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qzUuAIPPrGQ/3.jpg' height='90' width='120' time='00:01:32.250'/><media:thumbnail url='http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qzUuAIPPrGQ/0.jpg' height='240' width='320' time='00:01:01.500'/><media:title type='plain'>Bali Instruments</media:title><yt:duration seconds='123'/></media:group><gd:rating average='4.970053' max='5' min='1' numRaters='40338' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall'/><yt:statistics favoriteCount='10811' viewCount='705760'/></entry>
What do you recommend doing to getting data out of feeds such as this?

Thank you,
weee

Hello,

I'm using pbb forum

http://xemix.pl/


When I tried to get topics using rss feeds module, I got this error.

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Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Erroe occured while loading url by cURL.
Couldn't resolve host 'pbboard.com'' in /home/a5402323/public_html/includes/FeedParser.php:226
Stack trace:
#0 /home/a5402323/public_html/includes/FeedParser.php(157): FeedParser->getUrlContent()
#1 /home/a5402323/public_html/modules/admin/feeder.module.php(218): FeedParser->parse('http://absba.or...')
#2 /home/a5402323/public_html/modules/admin/feeder.module.php(49): PowerBBFeederMOD->_AddFeedStart()
#3 /home/a5402323/public_html/admin.php(89): PowerBBFeederMOD->run()
#4 {main} thrown in /home/a5402323/public_html/includes/FeedParser.php on line 226
the host said thet

Hello,cURL is installed by default here Many Thanks,Helpdesk Staff


any help !!!!

Currently I run a site that aggregates jobs about 100 cities so far and its starting to slow down my sites resources, I use a wordpress plugin to bring in the jobs but its giving me a resources alert.   My traffics not that high as of yet, but I'm worried about it causing problems on my shared hosting.   Server is running apache. Slow for wordpress?   Was just wondering best way to bring in multiple cities (thousands) /feeds and add category for each.

Hi there all, I want to pull news feeds, from a web site and display them ....

I have forgot what commands to use to do this.

please help.

Any example, i am most grateful.

Hi there,

I'm wondering If anyone can assist me. I am currently a design student In Leeds, UK.

I'm currently creating an online campaign whereby customers use QR codes to link to a created website with interesting youtube video on.

At the moment I've just created a simple link to the chosen content

http://newmedia.leeds.ac.uk/ug10/cs10dw/culture.html

However I've come across Youtube API Standard feeds on the Youtube Reference Guide. http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html

It states you can 'send a GET request to the URL associated with that feed', however, I've never really touched php before. Could anyone give me advise on how I would link say the Top rated feed to my site using https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/top_rated Would that be difficult?

ANY replies would be much appreciated!

Regards

David.

I have a full-text RSS component for Joomla that I was trying to modify. I wanted to be able to truncate the article to a given number of words and place a link at the end for the rest of the article. I need help figuring out how to add a link to the end of the source article.

Added this script to the post.php file. It sort of works but the "$ending" tag doesn't seem to function since there is no "..." appended to the end of articles posted, when I tested it.
public function truncate($text, $length = 200, $ending = '...', $exact = true, $considerHtml = false) {
if ($considerHtml) {
// if the plain text is shorter than the maximum length, return the whole text
if (str_word_count(preg_replace('/<.*?>/', '', $text)) <= $length) {
return $text;
}
// splits all html-tags to scanable lines
preg_match_all('/(<.+?>)?([^<>]*)/s', $text, $lines, PREG_SET_ORDER);
$total_length = str_word_count($ending);
$open_tags = array();
$truncate = '';
foreach ($lines as $line_matchings) {
// if there is any html-tag in this line, handle it and add it (uncounted) to the output
if (!empty($line_matchings[1])) {
// if it's an "empty element" with or without xhtml-conform closing slash (f.e. <br/>)
if (preg_match('/^<(\s*.+?\/\s*|\s*(img|br|input|hr|area|base|basefont|col|frame|isindex|link|meta|param)(\s.+?)?)>$/is', $line_matchings[1])) {
// do nothing
// if tag is a closing tag (f.e. </b>)
} else if (preg_match('/^<\s*\/([^\s]+?)\s*>$/s', $line_matchings[1], $tag_matchings)) {
// delete tag from $open_tags list
$pos = array_search($tag_matchings[1], $open_tags);
if ($pos !== false) {
unset($open_tags[$pos]);
}
// if tag is an opening tag (f.e. <b>)
} else if (preg_match('/^<\s*([^\s>!]+).*?>$/s', $line_matchings[1], $tag_matchings)) {
// add tag to the beginning of $open_tags list
array_unshift($open_tags, strtolower($tag_matchings[1]));
}
// add html-tag to $truncate'd text
$truncate .= $line_matchings[1];
}
// calculate the length of the plain text part of the line; handle entities as one character
$content_length = str_word_count(preg_replace('/&[0-9a-z]{2,8};|&#38;#[0-9]{1,7};|[0-9a-f]{1,6};/i', ' ', $line_matchings[2]));
if ($total_length+$content_length> $length) {
// the number of characters which are left
$left = $length - $total_length;
$entities_length = 0;
// search for html entities
if (preg_match_all('/&[0-9a-z]{2,8};|&#38;#[0-9]{1,7};|[0-9a-f]{1,6};/i', $line_matchings[2], $entities, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE)) {
// calculate the real length of all entities in the legal range
foreach ($entities[0] as $entity) {
if ($entity[1]+1-$entities_length <= $left) {
$left--;
$entities_length += str_word_count($entity[0]);
} else {
// no more characters left
break;
}
}
}
$truncate .= substr($line_matchings[2], 0, $left+$entities_length);
// maximum lenght is reached, so get off the loop
break;
} else {
$truncate .= $line_matchings[2];
$total_length += $content_length;
}
// if the maximum length is reached, get off the loop
if($total_length>= $length) {
break;
}
}
} else {
if (str_word_count($text) <= $length) {
return $text;
} else {
$truncate = substr($text, 0, $length - str_word_count($ending));
}
}
// if the words shouldn't be cut in the middle...
if (!$exact) {
// ...search the last occurance of a space...
$spacepos = strrpos($truncate, ' ');
if (isset($spacepos)) {
// ...and cut the text in this position
$truncate = substr($truncate, 0, $spacepos);
}
}
// add the defined ending to the text
$truncate .= $ending;
if($considerHtml) {
// close all unclosed html-tags
foreach ($open_tags as $tag) {
$truncate .= '</' . $tag . '>';
}
}
return $truncate;
}



I have attached the whole file as well if you want to see the rest.



This part of the script has the function that originally automatically added the link to the source article:

if($link_original==1){
if(strlen($ret->fullText))
$ret->fullText.="<p><a href='". $item->link."' target='_blank'>".$text_link_original."</a></p>";
else
$ret->introText.="<p><a href='". $item->link."' target='_blank'>".$text_link_original."</a></p>";
}

The problem is that it gets truncated with the rest of the article now.

Hi   I'm looking for some advice on how to parse an xml feed and display any odds on my site   Here is an example http://feed.youwincd...in_football.xml   and as you can see it is quite large so calling it every time would have an impact on the server.   I am looking at using many different feeds in the future so want to start this properly and in a scaleable way. I want to use php but open to any ideas on the best way to do this   Many thanks Sam