RSS-PHP RSS Parser Examples

The examples below are for RSS-PHP version 1 - new examples will be added for the new more powerful RSS-PHP version 3 in the next couple of days.

These examples are listed here purely to show the capabilities of RSS-PHP, they are to be used for reference only; rssphp.net does not promote the use of these scripts in a production environment.

Digg Front Page RSS to XHTML using RSS_PHP

This simple little script will use the RSS-PHP RSS Parser to retrieve digg's front page RSS and display as XHTML.


<?php

require_once 'rss_php.php';    



    $rss = new rss_php;

    $rss->load('http://digg.com/rss/index.xml');

    $items = $rss->getItems();



    $html = '';

    foreach($items as $index => $item) {

        $html .= '<p><a href="'.$item['link'].'" title="'.$item['title'].'"><strong>'.$item['title'].'</strong></a><br />

                    '.$item['description'].'<br />

                    Submitted by: <a href="'.$item['digg:submitter']['digg:userimage'].'">'.$item['digg:submitter']['digg:username'].'</a> :: '.$item['pubDate'].'<br />

                    Diggs: '.$item['digg:diggCount'].' :: <em>Category: '.$item['digg:category'].'</em>

                    </p>';

    }

    

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

<title>Digg Front Page</title>

</head>



<body>

<?php

echo $html;

?>

</body>

</html>

Google News RSS to JSON for use with AJAX

Here's a simple RSS-PHP solution to convert Google News RSS to JSON using RSS-PHP:


<?php

require_once 'rss_php.php';    



    $rss = new rss_php;



    $rss->load('http://news.google.com/?output=rss');

    

    echo json_encode($rss->getRSS());

    

?>

Other possible uses of RSS-PHP

RSS_PHP has can be used to parse any form of RSS, from any accessible source. Other Integrations may involve

GeoRSS > JSON > AJAX > Google Maps API
Yahoo Web Search API in RSS
Torrent RSS

Or perhaps a combine some of the following RSS resources..

For more information view the RSS-PHP RSS Parser Introduction or go straight to the full RSS-PHP documentation; and to get started download the latest version of RSS-PHP for use in your PHP applications for free.

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