Re: How to open and read "feed:" in PHP?

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:59:50 +0100, eastcoastguyz <eastcoastguyz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 30, 1:23 am, taps128 <nstje...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
eastcoastguyzwrote:
> I'm very new to RSS. I was given a URL that starts with "feed:". I
> want to be able to open this and read in its content into a PHP
> program to produce a report. I'm not interested in converting it to
> HTML.

> Question: Is a URL that starts with feed: output XML?

> Question: How do I open a feed: URL in PHP and parse it?

> Thanks!

> Edward

Open it using fopen, file_get_contects or curl, and read it using
simpleXML, or XMLReader.

Thanks for your posting.

I looked at the example for simpleXML on the php.net web site. I was
able to get the first example working. So I'm starting to understand
how this might work.

I have some questions. That example.php looks to be XML with a PHP
envelope (for lack of a better term) around it

Just to output with PHP script. This will offcourse not be visible when it is requested.

and then it has a call
to XML with "XML;". Since I'm new to this, that is a little confusing
as an example. How would that example be if it was reading from a
rss.xml file? And what about the "XML;" call?

Check the manual for heredoc syntax.
--
Rik Wasmus
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