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getRSS

I have given up on this project. Anyone is welcome to better this code and redistribute it on the two provisions that they; keep the current credits clear (that myself and Jeremy coded it) and that neither you or anyone else makes money from distributing it. If you do better it, please tell me and I will link to you.

Can be used as a Wordpress plugin or standalone

Authors

Description

This script makes it easy for you to display RSS feeds in a readable format on your website. It would be great for showing @commented-on, del.icio.us, Technorati or even your companies’ feed.

Although the format of this script is Wordpress plugin orientated, it doesn’t need Wordpress and can be used as a general function (by removing everything around function { … }). Unfortunately, this is PHP5 only as it takes advantage of PHP5’s DOM functions.

NOTE: You can implement this into a website multiple times but this version does NOT have caching yet, so if you are calling someone else’s feed, be gentle.


/*
Plugin Name: getRSS
Plugin URI: http://www.zachinglis.com/projects/getrss/
Description: Example: <?php echo getFeed('http://www.website.com/feed','<li>','</li>'); ?> and then stick it in between a <ul>
Author: Jeremy Keith & Zach Inglis
Author URI: http://www.adactio.com
Version: 1.00

Based upon the original Gravatar plugin:
http://gravatar.com/implement.php#section_2_2
*/

function getFeed($feed,$before=’

  • ‘,$after=’

    • ‘) {
    $return = “”;

    $rss = new DOMDocument();

    if (!$rss -> load($feed)) {
    return $before.”Couldn’t find RSS file.”.$after;
    }

    $count = 0;

    foreach ($rss -> getElementsByTagName(”item”) as $item) {

    if ($item -> getElementsByTagName(”title”) -> item(0)) {
    $return.= $before;
    $return.= “     $return.= $item -> getElementsByTagName(”link”) -> item(0) -> nodeValue;
    $return.= “\” title=\”View the ‘”;
    $return.= $item -> getElementsByTagName(”title”) -> item(0) -> nodeValue;
    $return.= “‘ entry \”>”;
    $return.= $item -> getElementsByTagName(”title”) -> item(0) -> nodeValue;
    $return.= “    “;
    $return.= $after;
    $return.= “\n”;
    }

    $count ++;
    }

    if ($count == 0) {
    $return = $before.”This feed has no items.”.$after;
    }

    if ($count > 10) { return; }

    return $return;
    }

    ?>