RSS Feed Reader

[rfc]

Hi,

I am looking to take the latest news from various sites.

However, it runs slow (sometimes upto 30 secs).

Here's my code:

<?php
// rss page for Testing -  

//$feed_url = "http://news.sky.com/sky-news/rss/home/rss.xml";
//$feed_url = "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/world/rss.xml";
$feed_url = "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_business.rss";

$xml = simplexml_load_file($feed_url);

// How many items to display 
$count = 12; 

// How many characters from each item 
// 0 (zero) will show them all. 
$char = 0; 

foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) { 
if($char == 0){ 
$newstring = $item->description; 
} 
else{ 
$newstring = substr($item->description, 0, $char); 
} 
if($count > 0){ 
//in case they have non-closed italics or bold, etc ... 
echo"</i></b></u></a>\n"; 
echo" 
<h2><a href='{$item->guid}' target='_blank'>{$item->title}</a></h2>
<p>$newstring</p>
<br />
";    

} 
$count--; 
}

?> 

Any way I could speed it up?

Thanks

[Kudose]

Your code looks pretty basic so I would say it is most likely a network issue. You could verify this by taking the content of the feed and assigning it to a variable and using simplexml_load_string instead.

[GirishR]

did u try Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser