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PHP RSS Parser

Posted December 12th, 2007 @ 08:46pm by Erik J. Barzeski

For a few years now, The Sand Trap has used MagpieRSS1 to handle a few of the RSS feeds on the site. In recent months, it's been acting very flaky.

A few weeks ago, I searched for some PHP XML processors. Most seemed to involve PEAR and libraries and whatnot. Phooey, I said. Today I was pointed at SimplePie, and it works wonderfully. I'm going to give it a week or two to run and, if I don't see any problems, I intend to donate.

Thanks, Jesper.

Footnotes

  1. I'm not even going to link to it.↩

3 Responses to "PHP RSS Parser"

  1. Quote MeJosh
    Posted 13 Dec 2007 at 9:01am #

    Does it support any XML or just RSS/Atom?


  2. Quote MeErik J. Barzeski
    Posted 13 Dec 2007 at 9:42am #

    Josh said on December 13, 2007:

    Does it support any XML or just RSS/Atom?

    I can answer you by quoting their site:

    Erik J. Barzeski said on December 13, 2007:

    SimplePie is designed to specifically parse RSS and Atom feeds, not raw XML.


  3. Quote MeJosh
    Posted 13 Dec 2007 at 12:50pm #

    Thanks. They had a link to a nice package to do other raw XML files: http://hansanderson.com/php/xml/



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