zeshan-a
4/17/2013 - 4:26 PM

Use cURL and SimpleXML to retrieve and parse Wordpress RSS feed

Use cURL and SimpleXML to retrieve and parse Wordpress RSS feed

gistfile1.php
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<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, Array(
	CURLOPT_URL            => 'http://blogs.guggenheim.org/map/feed/',
	CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => 'spider',
	CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,
	CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 30,
	CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
	CURLOPT_ENCODING       => 'UTF-8'
));

$data = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);

$xml = simplexml_load_string($data, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);

//die('<pre>' . print_r($xml], TRUE) . '</pre>');

?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>

<?php foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) {
	$creator = $item->children('dc', TRUE);
	echo '<h2>' . $item->title . '</h2>';
	echo '<p>Created: ' . $item->pubDate . '</p>';
	echo '<p>Author: ' . $creator . '</p>';
	echo '<p>' . $item->description . '</p>';
	echo '<p><a href="' . $item->link . '">Read more: ' . $item->title . '</a></p>';
}
?>

</body>
</html>