Setting up rss feeds

Forbairt · #11 (**permalink**) 20-12-2007, 03:23 PM

cheers for the link

Code:

<?php
require_once 'rss_fetch.inc';
$url = 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/northern_ireland/rss091.xml';
$rss = fetch_rss($url);
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 5);
echo "Site: ", $rss->channel['title'], "<br>\n";
foreach ($items as $item ) {
$title = $item[title];
$url = $item[link];
$description = $item[description];
echo "<a href=$url>$title</a><br>$description</li><br>\n";
}
?>

What we did was chop the 5 entries out into an array called $items

As such we have to change our foreach statement

enjoy

Big D · #12 (**permalink**) 20-12-2007, 03:34 PM

Forbairt, you're a wizard - thank you SO much!

Forbairt · #13 (**permalink**) 20-12-2007, 03:39 PM

no problem ...

all part of the service here at Irish Webmaster Forum

ghost · #14 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 01:04 PM

Any explanation for this behavior
the following feed is from RTE
RTE Sport News
the two I am curious about
1 St Vincent's 2-08 Tyrrellspass 0-07
2 O?Connor appointed to Kerins O?Rahillys post

Source code for no 2
<h1>O'Connor appointed to Kerins O'Rahillys post</h1>
question why in the second case was the apostrophe converted to ?

Big D · #15 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 01:19 PM

I wish I could help on this one, but it is beyond me - the apostrophes seem to be working in some items but not in others -strange.

Hopefully someone with a bit more savvy can provide an answer

Forbairt · #16 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 01:19 PM

At a glance ... I'd say you've not defined your encoding for the page ?

ghost · #17 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 01:19 PM

And from the Irish Examiner sport
Examiner Sport News
Quotation marks are displayed as ?
GAA due to ?serious? challenges to its amateur status.

Forbairt · #18 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 01:30 PM

can you post your php code ?

This ...

Code:

<?php
require_once 'rss_fetch.inc';

$url = 'http://www.rte.ie/rss/sport.xml';
$rss = fetch_rss($url);
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 5);
echo "Site: ", $rss->channel['title'], "<br>\n";
foreach ($items as $item ) {
$title = $item[title];
$url = $item[link];
$description = $item[description];
echo "<a href=$url>$title</a><br>$description</li><br>\n";
}
?>

works fine for me ... everything displaying correctly

ghost · #19 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 01:57 PM

Used the code you posted for Big D
I just ran the code in my own server to test it.
I have used Last Rss on a few sites and I get a lot of this type of stuff the quotations in the Examiner site just made me drop it altogether.
I don't know if this is an encoding problem , as you can see here apostrophes are showing in some instances and not in others
just curious to know why.

ghost · #20 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 02:17 PM

I have Last Rss working here just useing titles
StColumba's hurling Club Galway
might notice the header on the right for independent.ie/sport/ is missing had to remove due to @?^*.
I might have a look at magpie tonight looks like a sub for me.

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