Parsing XML With PHP Question

[Sillysoft]

Trying to parse information from a rss 2.0 xml document using xml_parser. Once I read the whole document I look through it using a switch, so for every TITLE echo this out. The problem is the first 2 titles are just the name of the site and not actual news.

How would I go about skipping the first 2 to get only the news titles? I looked at the xml file and notice that the news are stored in ITEM, but no matter what I try using a switch or an if statement I cannot skip the first 2 for some reason.

Thanks
Silly

[greg.harvey]

Damn... I was looking for a similar solution in ASP and found a PHP one... can't remember the name and it was only half an hour ago! brb

[greg.harvey]

http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

Edit:

Sorry. Didn't read your post properly. Still, this might help... I've been here too long, clearly, and I'm going home! Via the pub of course...

[Zoef]

What you need to to is detect if you are inside an <ITEM /> element and ignore the rest.

This article should give you an idea: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php...arsing-rss-1-0

In the code of that article a global boolean variable $insideitem is used to achieve what you want. You could also wrap things in a class and use a member variable for this.

Rik

[Sillysoft]

Thanks guys! I checked out both and got it to work. The second article, off of Sitepoint, I tried doing it myself from scratch before stopping due to not getting it going. I will have to look deeper at the code to see were I went wrong. But for now this will work!

Thanks again!

Silly

[Zoef]

You're most welcome.

You might also want to check out this: http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

Rik