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>";
You can pretty much use the data how you like… check out the simplepie documentation to see all of the data you can get from a feed.
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very very good…..
Elliot, thanks for the port, I use it all the time.
Just a minor point – in the second part of the code example (’Then, to use the feed data…’) I think the first and last lines of code should have ‘ul’ instead of ‘li’ in there.
Thanks again for all your work on CI libs!
I know SimplePie, and i had test code. Currently I only get the title and description, I’d like to get all of the contents show up.Please help me!.
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Hi Elliot,
Thanks for the great classes you provide around here. That’s a real plus for the CI community.
Here I don’t get what code did you add to SimplePie, as I thought I’d be able to use it “as is”? Could you explain to me please?
Good luck with BinaryCake =)