Working with RSS/XML

[AndrewGB]

I am struggling with my PHP script, so I'd like some additional help please.

I am trying to open a remote RSS/XML file and extract the "title" and "link" within a loop.

This is the RSS/XML file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii" ?> 
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>RSS</title> 
<description>Description</description> 
<link></link> 
<docs>TBA</docs> 
<generator>Website V1</generator> 
<ttl>5</ttl> 

[B]<item>
<title>Google</title> 
<description>Search Engine</description> 
<link>http://www.google.com/</link> 
</item>

<item>
<title>Yahoo</title> 
<description>Search Engine</description> 
<link>http://www.yahoo.com/</link> 
</item>

<item>
<title>Bing</title> 
<description>Search Engine</description> 
<link>http://www.bing.com/</link> 
</item>[/B]

</channel>
</rss>

I've been using this article, http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-xmldomphp/, but I'm not getting anywhere.

[AndrewGB]

I am trying to make $title = <title>, and $description = <description>, and $link = <link>

[AndrewGB]

So far I've got...

 <?php
  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  $doc->load( 'rss.xml' );

  $channel = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "item" );
  foreach( $channel as $item )
  {

  $titles = $item->getElementsByTagName( "title" );
  $title = $titles->item(0)->nodeValue;

  $links = $item->getElementsByTagName( "link" );
  $link = $links->item(0)->nodeValue;

  echo "$title - $link\n";
  }
  ?>

[bradgrafelman]

Have you considered using [man]SimpleXML[/man] instead? Here's a simple (pun intended) example:

$rss = simplexml_load_file( 'rss.xml' );

foreach( $rss->channel->item as $item )
    {
    echo "$item->title - $item->link\n";
    }

output:

Google - http://www.google.com/
Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/
Bing - http://www.bing.com/

[AndrewGB]

Perfect!

Thank you