Easy RSS feed display with SimplePie
An easy way to display a RSS feed on your page if your are not using wordpress is SimplePie. SimplePie is an open source php class making syndication simple. Have a look at the website: simplepie.org for download and documentation.
Here is a little example from the documentation to show you how simple the code is:
// Make sure SimplePie is included. You may need to change this to match the location of simplepie.inc.
require_once(‘../simplepie.inc’);
// We’ll process this feed with all of the default options.
$feed = new SimplePie(‘http://simplepie.org/blog/feed/’);
// This makes sure that the content is sent to the browser as text/html and the UTF-8 character set (since we didn’t change it).
$feed->handle_content_type();
// Let’s begin our XHTML webpage code. The DOCTYPE is supposed to be the very first thing, so we’ll keep it on the same line as the closing-PHP tag.
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Sample SimplePie Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<h1><a href="<?php echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a></h1>
<p><?php echo $feed->get_description(); ?></p>
</div>
<?php
/*Here, we’ll loop through all of the items in the feed, and $item represents the current item in the loop.*/
foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item):
?>
<div class="item">
<h2><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h2>
<p><?php echo $item->get_description(); ?></p>
<p><small>Posted on <?php echo $item->get_date(‘j F Y | g:i a’); ?></small></p>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</body>
</html>
Everything is there to build a complete page which will display the rss feed you want. For a more practical example have a look at the front page of the gallery. The right hand side part is displayed with simplepie from the rss feed of this blog.
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