PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0

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This is an article discussion thread for discussing the SitePoint article, “PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0”

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This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! Do you know if it is possible to output the RSS feed to an HTML table so that it is not a one column list but a two or three column list?

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Very good, it took me ages searching to find understandable solutions to the problems solved in these pages. Clear and to the point.

Thanks.

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A great article. It really helped me understand the basics of XML-parsing in php.

Thanks alot!

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Really good article! This helped me greatly. Thanks!

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Very good! Thank you.

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Great article - got me parsing XML docs extremely quickly. Disappointingly, though, there’s no coverage of attributes - just elements and content.

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Correction - there is some brief (3 lines) coverage of attributes - missed it first time round. In fairness that was enough to understand the usage.

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Vary Good

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Great article. First one that broke it all down. Most others just briefly go over different aspects of it as if you already know what they’re talking about.

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How does this differ when it comes to different versions of RSS? Any inputs on that?

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Excellent article. Exactly what I was looking for!

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nice article. way to contrast it with an OOP example. what about constrasting it with non-php, scripting options (javascript).

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A great article - exactly what I needed. In addition, could anyone tell me how to limit the number of items that are displayed. For example, if I wanted to list just the latest three items from a feed that has 25 items listed, how would I tell the parser to stop at 3?

Thanks

Gareth

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Woa, it’s really what i’m looking for. Thank you so much!

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This is just what I needed thanks!
But is there a way to just process the first 5 items or so?

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Neat script, but can anyone tell me how I could adapt it to check multiple RSS feeds?

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I’m a newbie in php programming but I thought this article terrific! Congrats!

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one of the best tutorials i have ever read.
with comments in almost every line of code which helps you understand exactly the meaning of the code and not assuming what this code does…

Thanx a lot!keep up the good work

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The code works great except for generating a depreciated call which can be corrected by changing these two lines:

<code>$rss_parser = new RSSParser();
xml_set_object($xml_parser,&$rss_parser); </code>

to this:

<code>$rss_parser = &new RSSParser();
xml_set_object($xml_parser,$rss_parser); </code>