Hi guys, just need some advice on this code to see whether i could change anything to make it more simple, its just to display in its simplest form an RSS feed.
//set the variables
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
$tag = $name;
} elseif ($name == "ITEM") {
$insideitem = true;
}
}
function endElement($parser, $name) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($name == "ITEM") {
printf("<dt><b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b></dt>",
trim($link),htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));
printf("<dd>%s</dd>",htmlspecialchars(trim($description)));
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$insideitem = false;
}
}
function characterData($parser, $data) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
switch ($tag) {
case "TITLE":
$title .= $data;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION":
$description .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$link .= $data;
break;
}
}
}
// Create an XML parser
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
// Set the functions to handle opening and closing tags
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
// Set the function to handle blocks of character data
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
// Open the XML file for reading
$fp = fopen("http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss091.xml","r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
// Read the XML file 4KB at a time
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
// Parse each 4KB chunk with the XML parser created above
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
// Handle errors in parsing
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
// Close the XML file
fclose($fp);
// Free up memory used by the XML parser
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
