Integrate RSS feeds to your page with PHP

by: Mats Holmvik

Always wanted more content on your page? Then here is the solution! Integrate RSS feeds from others into your site, make it appear like you are serving the fresh news. So lets get started.

First of all this is going to be as easy as possible. We first need a PHP script that gets and parses the feed we are going to use. Todays choice was Magpierss-0.72. You can download it direct from here. You need winrar or some other advanced zip like tool to unpack the files. Once downloaded you just unpack all the files, upload it to your webserver and puts it in a directory named magpierss-0.72.

So we have to create the reader.php file, you can name it whatever you want but remember that it has to be a *.php file. Put in the code below, change the $URL variable with whatever feed you want and save the file, upload it next to the magpierss-0.72 folder and goto yoursite.com/reader.php. Now you see the magic happens, then you can use basic php->include() function to put it on your front page or other places you want it. Experiment and make it look lite the post you allready have on your page! :) Enjoy!

Here is the code of reader.php:

<div class="content">

<?php

require_once("magpierss-0.72/rss_fetch.inc"); # Here you define where magpie is. define('MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING', 'utf-8'); # Choose your encoding $url = "http://www.pixel2life.com/feeds/latest_15_tuts.xml"; # Define where the feed is, i picked pixel2life.com's tutorial feed $rss = fetch_rss( $url ); $num_items = 10; # Pick a number of items from the feed you want to display $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items);

foreach ($items as $item) { $ahref = $item['link']; $title = $item['title']; $description = $item['description']; # This doesnt work on p2l but other feeds have description so i didn't remove it if you want it ;) print "<b><a href=$ahref>$title</a></b><br />$description<br /><br />";

}

?>

</div>

Live example here: http://rssarticles.itstyle.net/magpietutorialtest.php

Resources: http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ www.php.net www.pixel2life.com

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