I need a script to read a page like this http://www.stuff.co.nz/feeds/League.xml and it will set all nodes like title, link and description into a variables like $title $link
I've looked into this for several days but it's doing my head in, can someone help
What you're trying to do is read RSS. Check out http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-element-construct.php . Then, with a loop, you can read the RSS and do whatever you want with it.
Yeah Ive read that but i seem to make a right mess of it....
here is my try
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('http://www.stuff.co.nz/feeds/League.xml');
//echo $doc->saveXML();
$newNode = $dom->createElement('item id') ;
foreach ($nodeList as &$node) {
echo $node->nodeValue ;
$newNode->appendChild($node) ;
}
?>
But why would you pick createElement() ? You don't want to create anything new, you just want to search the XML.
Try using this function on that line instead: [man]domdocument.getelementsbytagname[/man].
This code should get you started.
$feed_details = @new SimpleXMLElement($rss_contents,LIBXML_NOCDATA);
if (!empty($feed_details->channel->item)) {
foreach ($feed_details->channel->item as $num=>$rss_object) {
// You now have these. You could also do print_r($rss_object) to see all options
$rss_object->title
$rss_object->link
$rss_object->description
}
}