Displaying RSS feeds using PHP (Parsing XML)
November 14, 2007Hello everybody I've already use this XML parse script using PHP and it really works, now if your tired of searching exact script of parsing XML to PHP now you have this one. Below are the codes I edited I found this in the tutorial and I edited some codes to make this work perfect.
<?php
$file = "put your XML data here.xml";
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
function start($parser, $name, $attrs){
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
$tag = $name;
} elseif ($name == "ITEM") {
$insideitem = true;
}
}
function ends($parser, $name){
global $insideitem, $title, $description, $link;
if ($name == "ITEM") {
printf("<dt><b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b></dt>", trim($link), trim($title));
printf("<dd>%s</dd><br><br>",trim($description));
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$insideitem = false;
}
}
function character($parser, $data){
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
switch ($tag) {
case "TITLE":
$title .= $data;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION":
$description .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$link .= $data;
break;
}
}
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<style>
a{
font-size: 14px;
}
</style>
<div style="padding:8px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">
<?
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "start", "ends");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "character");
$fp = fopen($file, "r") or die ("Error:");
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)) or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I hope this article helps.
Feel free to send me comments or suggestions.
Thanks.
