Displaying RSS Feed with PHP

Posted by : Unknown Kamis, 12 Februari 2009

This article explains to displaying RSS(XML format) feed like popurls.com (popular urls in one place) using simplexml_load_file() a PHP function. It's very useful to display your blog feeds as like Recent articles(headlines) list.

RSS- Really Simple Syndication.

Reading XML data and presenting with HTML.

Download Script

Live Demo

Index.php RSS display page:
File contains HTML tags and PHP included rssclass.php. You have to change the RSS feed URL.

<div>
  <?php
  include('rssclass.php');
  $feedlist = new rss('http://feeds2.feedburner.com/9lesson');
  echo $feedlist->display(9,"9lessons");
 
  $feedlist = new rss('http://feeds.feedburner.com/nettuts');
  echo $feedlist->display(9,"Nettuts");
 
  $feedlist = new rss('http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol');
  echo $feedlist->display(9,"Labnol");
  ?> 
  </div>

Popurls.com screen shot

rssclass.php
A beautiful PHP function simplexml_load_file() to load and read XML file. simplexml_load_string() XML string reader.

<?php
 class rss {
     var $feed;

  function rss($feed) 
    {   $this->feed = $feed;  }
 
  function parse() 
    {
    $rss = simplexml_load_file($this->feed);

    $rss_split = array();
    foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {

    $title = (string) $item->title; // Title
    $link   = (string) $item->link; // Url Link
    $description = (string) $item->description; //Description
    $rss_split[] = '<div>
        <a href="'.$link.'" target="_blank" title="" >
            '.$title.' 
        </a>
   <hr>
          </div>
';
    }
    return $rss_split;
  }
  function display($numrows,$head) 
  {
    $rss_split = $this->parse();

    $i = 0;
    $rss_data = '<div class="vas">
           <div class="title-head">
         '.$head.'
           </div>
         <div class="feeds-links">';
    while ( $i < $numrows ) 
   {
      $rss_data .= $rss_split[$i];
      $i++;
    }
    $trim = str_replace('', '',$this->feed);
    $user = str_replace('&lang=en-us&format=rss_200','',$trim);
    $rss_data.='</div></div>';
    return $rss_data;
  }
}
?>

CSS code :
Style just view the Live Demo

.vas{
    float:left;
    width:270px;
    padding:10px;
}
.title-head {
    font-size:18px;
    font-weight:bold;
    text-align:left;
    background-color:#006699;
    color:#FFFFFF;
    padding:5px;}
.feeds-links {
    text-align:left;
    padding:5px;
    border:1px solid #dedede;
 }