Re: Re: XML parser for PHP5

Matthew Sims wrote:

My fault, I should have been more specific. An RSS reader. :) I was using xmlParser-0.3 and feedParser-0.5 to display news sites. Since I've converted to PHP5, they no longer work for me.

definitely a combination of simplexml and DOM would work. You need DOM in order to determine what the name of the root node's namespace is to find RSS 1.0. http://php.net/simplexml http://php.net/DOM for example: <?php $rss = simplexml_load_file('http://www.example.com/blah.rss'); $dom = new domdocument("1.0"); $dom_rss = $dom->importnode($rss, true); $dom_rss = $dom->appendchild($rss); if ($dom_rss->namespaceURI == '') {

    $rssversion = '1.0';

} else {

    $rssversion = $rss['version'];

} switch ($rssversion) {

    case '1.0' :
    case '2.0' :
        if (isset($rss->channel->pubDate)) {
            echo "Publication Date: " . $rss->channel->pubDate . "<br />";
        }

    case '0.91' :
    case '0.92' :
    case '0.93' :
    case '0.94' :
        echo '<a href="';
        echo $rss->channel->link;
        echo '">' . $rss->channel->title . '</a><br />';
        foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {
            echo $item->title . '<br />';
            echo '<a href="';
            echo $item->link;
            echo '">' . $item->description . '</a><br />';
        }
    break;

} ?> Of course, the full range RSS tags are available to you as object properties, and attributes as array access (like $rss['version']) Greg