Grabing Headline with PHP

Anon

Hi. What I would like to be able to do is grab headlines off of different sites and post them on mine. I would like to grab 10 headlines off of 6 sites and have a table for each site and have the tables lined up like this:

table 1       table 2

table 3       table 4

table 5       table 6

The headlines would update every 30 minutes.
I am new to php. If you could help, then please email me. I was hoping someone could show me an example on how to do this.
Thanks

Graham Smith

Anon

The problem with something like this is knowing whereabouts on a webpage the headlines are kept.

You can use funstions like fopen() which will go get urls for you, but then you have to sift through all the code to find what you want.

That may be fine if the site that you want to access always has headlines in the same place like;

<p><font face...>Blah Blah</font></p>

Then you can just search for that first tag....but I don't think websites are coded that intellingently for us to be able to rely on them.

I am also looking for a way to do this and the best that I am able to come up with yet...is to rig up a small database and manually add articles....which of course is a pain in the ass.

I do remember Tim (from phpbuilder) mentioning something about a feed from a website.....RSS?...or NSS?...or something like that.....have a search for "news" and you should find it.

I'm keen to see if it can be done also.

rgds,
scott d~

Anon

RSS Newsfeeds:
http://w.moreover.com/categories/category_list_rss.html

Anon

I want to grab headlines from Moreover in either the XML or RSS format. Is there a function or parser that can easily do this?

I tried using rsslib.inc (http://www.helpermonkey.org/rsslib/) but I wasn't successful in getting it to work with Moreover news.

I also tried rdfparse.php3 (http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/5962.html) but it gave the following error:

"Call to unsupported or undefined function xitem() on line 65"

Any ideas?