// SimplePie CodeIgniter Library

SimplePieParsing 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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Version: 1.0

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