Comments on: How to Easily Parse a RSS Feed with PHP 4 or PHP 5 http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/ Web design tips & tricks plus anything else I want to talk about... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:52:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TheDeadServ http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-29834 TheDeadServ Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:10:04 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-29834 For those who want do display by category, by default, if you set a category there's an html path that wordpress generates. You can get the rss feed url to such category trough the respective "category folder path/feed". PE: http://yourblog.wordpress.com/category/yourcategoryname/feed/ Replacing "yourblog" and "yourcategoryname" by their respectives. Dunno if other blogs do so. I use the PHP GET function to select wich blog or category I want to call. For those who want do display by category, by default, if you set a category there’s an html path that wordpress generates.
You can get the rss feed url to such category trough the respective “category folder path/feed”.

PE:
http://yourblog.wordpress.com/category/yourcategoryname/feed/

Replacing “yourblog” and “yourcategoryname” by their respectives.

Dunno if other blogs do so.
I use the PHP GET function to select wich blog or category I want to call.

]]> By: Adam Parkzer http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-26232 Adam Parkzer Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:26:15 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-26232 This works great! I wish I had found this four hours earlier so I didn't have to waste all that time searching! This works great! I wish I had found this four hours earlier so I didn’t have to waste all that time searching!

]]> By: Monty http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-25517 Monty Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:08:19 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-25517 This is great, thanks for posting! Only thing I wish it could do is store the CATEGORY tag as an array because often a post has more than category assigned. The above code only saves the first CATEGORY tag. I'd change it, but, not sure how to do it myself. If anyone knows how to change the code to make it save CATEGORies as an array, I'd greatly appreciate it!! This is great, thanks for posting! Only thing I wish it could do is store the CATEGORY tag as an array because often a post has more than category assigned. The above code only saves the first CATEGORY tag. I’d change it, but, not sure how to do it myself. If anyone knows how to change the code to make it save CATEGORies as an array, I’d greatly appreciate it!!

]]> By: Ryan Stemkoski http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-25310 Ryan Stemkoski Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:44:14 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-25310 @zaner, @arun m I am glad to hear it worked well for you guys. @zaner, @arun m I am glad to hear it worked well for you guys.

]]> By: Zaner http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-25308 Zaner Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:16:19 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-25308 This has saved me a ton of time on a project that needed to be done quickly. So Painless ... Thx! This has saved me a ton of time on a project that needed to be done quickly. So Painless … Thx!

]]> By: Arun M http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-21516 Arun M Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:46:37 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-21516 Nice work. Thanks for sharing. Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Ryan Stemkoski http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-21219 Ryan Stemkoski Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:32:15 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-21219 @Matt Glad to hear it worked out for you. Turning an RSS feed into an array makes it pretty handy to display the data. What is even easier is using the built in functions in PHP 5 :) too bad the world isn't totally on board yet. @Matt Glad to hear it worked out for you. Turning an RSS feed into an array makes it pretty handy to display the data. What is even easier is using the built in functions in PHP 5 :) too bad the world isn’t totally on board yet.

]]> By: Matt http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-21157 Matt Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:51:40 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-21157 Hi There, Many thanks for this function. A customer needed me to update a page that had broken when the site serving an RSS page changed its format. It had been years since I parsed RSS using PHP4, and I was not looking forward to it. Lucky for me, about 20 minutes with your script and a small addition, and I was on my way. Much appreciated! Matt Hi There,
Many thanks for this function. A customer needed me to update a page that had broken when the site serving an RSS page changed its format. It had been years since I parsed RSS using PHP4, and I was not looking forward to it. Lucky for me, about 20 minutes with your script and a small addition, and I was on my way.

Much appreciated!
Matt

]]> By: Wolfgang Baier http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-20003 Wolfgang Baier Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:34:17 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-20003 Hey, many thanks from Darmstadt / Germany. That was exactly what I was looking for! I changed the script and now it is a php to flash twitter reader. CIAO Dennis Hey,

many thanks from Darmstadt / Germany. That was exactly what I was looking for! I changed the script and now it is a php to flash twitter reader.

CIAO Dennis

]]> By: techno-geek http://www.stemkoski.com/how-to-easily-parse-a-rss-feed-with-php-4-or-php-5/comment-page-1/#comment-18240 techno-geek Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:46:34 +0000 http://www.stemkoski.com/?p=386#comment-18240 Hey Ryan: I wanted to thank you for posting this code. It saved quite a bit of time trying to get started. I wanted to let you know I have modified your code a little bit to allow you to limit the number of items as well as only contain items that where the title matches certain keywords. I also turned my modifications into a WordPress plugin as well. If you, or anyone else, would like to see my modifications or WordPress plugin please check out http://techno-geeks.org/2009/06/selective-rss-plugin-for-wordpress/ Hey Ryan:

I wanted to thank you for posting this code. It saved quite a bit of time trying to get started. I wanted to let you know I have modified your code a little bit to allow you to limit the number of items as well as only contain items that where the title matches certain keywords. I also turned my modifications into a WordPress plugin as well.

If you, or anyone else, would like to see my modifications or WordPress plugin please check out http://techno-geeks.org/2009/06/selective-rss-plugin-for-wordpress/

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