mod_rss: Reading RSS Feeds

This module allows you to read RSS feeds and display items through Ariadne templates.

First, find an RSS feed to display, then create a template on pobject, called rss.html, like this:

<ul>
<pinp>
  load('mod_rss.php');
  $feed=rss::loadFromUrl('http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml');
  $feed->ls('rss.show.html');

</pinp>
</ul>

Then create a template on pobject called rss.show.html, e.g.:

<pinp>
  $item=getvar('item'); // get the rss item information 
</pinp>
<li><pinp> 
  if ($item['title']) { 
    echo "<h3>".$item['title']."</h3>"; 
  }
  echo "<p>".$item['description']."</p>";
</pinp></li>

That's it. You now have an rss reader in Ariadne. It doesn't do much yet, but you can do a lot more.

Any element in the item of an rss feed is available in the $item array, with the name of the xml tag as the index in the array, e.g.:

<item>
  <title> 		$item['title']
  <link> 			$item['link']
  <description> 		$item['description']
  <pubDate> 		$item['pubDate']
  <guid> 			$item['guid']
  <author> 		$item['author']
  <category> 		$item['category']
  <enclosure> 		$item['enclosure']
etc.

There are a lot more ways to use the RSS module, see the list of methods below:

rss::loadFromUrl

rssFeed rss::loadFromUrl($url)

Reads an RSS feed from a URL.

rss::loadFromString

rssFeed rss::loadFromString($RSS)

Reads an RSS feed from a string.

rssFeed::reset

array reset()

Resets the internal list pointer. If the RSS feed is read from a URL, the RSS feed is requested again. It then returns the first item in the feed.

rssFeed::next


array next()
Advances the internal list pointer by one. It then returns the next item in the feed.
rssFeed::count
int count()

Returns the number of items in the feed.

rssFeed::current

array current()

Returns the current item in the feed.

rssFeed::ls

mixed ls($template, $args='')

This method walks through the rss feed one item at a time, and calls each item with the given template and arguments. It adds a single argument to each call: $item. This is an array with all the items elements in the XML feed.