Elliot Haughin

Weblife

Thoughts

About to pay for moblie me. Absolutely love the service so far. Will be well worth it! 13 hrs ago
Time for bed. I'll forget I've changed my hair and get a shock when I look in the mirror tomorrow! 3 days ago
Hair finished, and it's very very black! 3 days ago
Dying my hair. First time I've done by own. Hope it comes out ok. I'll see in 30 minutes! 3 days ago
Down the pub with the church crew. It's strange discussing the preach over a cold pint! 4 days ago
Anyone going to the 5pm service at hillsong London? It's gonna be great! 4 days ago
The perfect night. Lots to drink, house party with friends, no hangover and a fried breakfast. Brilliant! 4 days ago
Phoned dell about my fried graphics card in my xps. This warranty is great! Engineer coming to my work to replace the card on Tuesday! 5 days ago

Tunes

19 hours agoSwitchfoot – Meant to Live
19 hours agoJet – Hold On
19 hours agoTrain – Ordinary
19 hours agoDashboard Confessional – Vindicated
20 hours agoMe First and the Gimme Gimmes – She Believes In Me (Kenny Rogers)
20 hours agoMe First and the Gimme Gimmes – On The Road Again (Willie Nelson)
20 hours agoMe First and the Gimme Gimmes – Goodbye Earl (Dixie Chicks)
20 hours agoMe First and the Gimme Gimmes – San Francisco
20 hours agoMe First and the Gimme Gimmes – My Boyfriend's Back
20 hours agoMe First and the Gimme Gimmes – Blowin' in the Wind

SimplePie CodeIgniter Library

Parsing RSS feeds with PHP has always been a bit of a pain the ass.
But, SimplePie makes it much simpler!

In your controllers, simply load the library, set your feed url.. and you’re away!

$this->load->library('simplepie');
$this->simplepie->set_feed_url('http://feeds.haughin.com/haughin');
$this->simplepie->set_cache_location(APPPATH.'cache/rss');
$this->simplepie->init();
$this->simplepie->handle_content_type();
 
$data['rss_items'] = $this->simplepie->get_items();

Then, to use the feed data:

echo "<li>";
foreach($rss_items as $item) {
	echo "<li>";
	echo "<a href='" .$item->get_link() . "'>";
	echo $item->get_title();
	echo "</a>";
	echo "</li>";
}
echo "</li>";