[RESOLVED] XML parsing in PHP ?

Rodney_H_

Does anyone know how I could parse an RSS - XML feed and use it in my php page without using fsockopen() ?

Drew wrote a brilliant script, RSS Fetch , but I can't use it b/c my host says they won't allow the fsockopen function.

Rodney

Drakla

Do you know if they've specifically disallowed fsockopen, or turned off url fopen? If it's the former then try grabbing the contents of a page with

$page = file_get_contents('http://someplace.com');

And seeing if you've got any data. If you have you can use that. I haven't checked that guys code, but if you can pass in the data somewhere or mod his fsocket stuff then you're laughing.

Just try running this on your machine - it's not so long that it'll need to be an attachment so I'll just paste

<?php
define('FEED', 'http://syndication.digitalspy.co.uk/xmlcache/dsbball.xml');
define('FEED2', 'http://www.bbgossip.com/rss.xml');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>BB Gossip RSS</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
main();
?>
</body>
</html>
<?php
function main()
{
	echo 'Digispy Feed<br />';	echo implode('<br />', get_feed(FEED));

echo '<br /><br />BBGossip Feed<br />';	echo implode('<br />', get_feed(FEED2));
}

function get_feed($feed)
{
	$xml = file_get_contents($feed);

if (!$xml) return false;

$p = xml_parser_create();
xml_parse_into_struct($p, $xml, $vals, $index);
xml_parser_free($p);

return decode_parsed($index, $vals);
}

// pulls the guff out of the arrays

function decode_parsed(&$index, &$vals)
{
	$data = array();

//	echo '<pre>'; print_r($index); print_r($vals); echo '</pre>';

foreach ($index['TITLE'] as $key => $title)
{
	$data[] = 
	'<a href="'. $vals[$index['LINK'][$key]]['value']
	. '" target="_blank" title="' . $vals[$index['DESCRIPTION'][$key]]['value'] . '">'
	. $vals[$title]['value']
	. '</a> + '
	. $vals[$index['DESCRIPTION'][$key]]['value']
	;
}

return $data;
}
?>

Rodney_H_

Drew actually suggested this too:

$page = file_get_contents('http://someplace.com');

But that doesn't work either on my host's site.

I tried your second idea, too, and it works on my machine at home, but not on my host's server.

ANy other ideas??

Thanks a lot for your help....

eporue

I have already recommended http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ a few times here, but .... 🙂

Rodney_H_

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Rodney_H_

Rodney H. wrote:
Thanks, I'll check it out.

EDIT: I have changed servers to spoonohost and now can use fsockopen(); so I am finally able to use drew's xml parsing class