note 110190 added to function.xml-parse-into-struct

Here is my World's smallest (I hope so :)) RSS parser with optional caching capabilities. <?php // The World's smallest RSS feed parser by CyberSEO.net (contacts: http://www.cyberseo.net/#contacts) // Put your RSS feed URL here: $feed = "http://rt.com/news/today/rss/"; // Assign the local path to your optional cache file (e.g. cache.txt) which must be writable by the script. $filename = "cache.txt"; // The default cache refresh time is set to one hour (60 * 60), but you can change it to any other value. if (file_exists($filename) && filesize($filename) && (time() - filectime($filename)) < 60 * 60) { $content = file_get_contents($filename); } else { $xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, file_get_contents($feed), $vals, $index); // The maximum number of displayed items is limited by 5. Change it to whatever you want. $cnt = min(5, count($index["TITLE"])); $content = ""; for ($i = 1; $i <= $cnt; $i++) { $content .= "<h3>" . html_entity_decode($vals[$index["TITLE"][$i]]["value"], ENT_QUOTES) . "</h3>\n"; $content .= "<p>" . html_entity_decode($vals[$index["DESCRIPTION"][$i]]["value"], ENT_QUOTES) . "</p>\n"; } xml_parser_free($xml_parser); file_put_contents($filename, $content, LOCK_EX); } echo $content; ?> Just place this code somewhere into your PHP file and it will parse the given feed. Perhaps somebody will find it useful. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 173.214.255.81 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse-into-struct.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/110190 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110190/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110190/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110190/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110190/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110190/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110190/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110190 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/110190 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php