Recently I had a project that involved reading RSS feeds.I have created a simple PHP Script to read RSS Feed.
I have used simple XML element to read the feeds and then breaking it down based on structure. Sometimes it has been hard to deal with the some non-standard feeds.So today I am going to show you how you can extract RSS XML feed data.
Here, I have used bitsontherun host and stream videos and to display information of videos. I have used RSS XML feed and only extracted the values I needed, but you can extract any feed data with below code.
Now, let’s move to the coding part.Here, I have used thumbnail and date to extract from feed and getting display on the screen.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | // To fetch content from bitsontherun $data = new SimpleXmlElement($content); foreach($data- >channel- >item as $entry) { if ($media = $entry- >children('media', TRUE)) { $src = $play_attributes['url']; if ($media- >content- >thumbnail) { $attributes = $media- >content- >thumbnail- >attributes(); $imgsrc = (string)$attributes['url']; echo "<img src="".$imgsrc."" alt="" />"; } } $pub_date= explode("-",$entry- >pubDate); } |
Also Read:
Introduction to Transient API in WordPress
Parsing an RSS Feed with WordPress
To parse CSV Data in PHP
In a lot of conditions, It may be easier to use a simple XML element, but I recommend this function when you need the string output.
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