Topic: creating RSS feed, need help with some things

[Clandestinex337]

ok so I am working on an RSS feed, but I have some questions on some things that I am not sure how to go about it.

right now I have

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function getRSS($rss_url)
{
$content = file_get_contents($rss_url);
$xml = new SimpleXmlElement($content);

foreach($xml->channel->item as $entry)
{
echo "<a href='$entry->link' title='$entry->title'>" . $entry->title . "</a></br>";
}
}
This displays the RSS from a URL, but I want to be able use a form to post the link which will go to a text file.

This is the function I have for making the links go to the text file

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function createRSS()
{
$filename = "rss.txt";
$text = $_POST['rssURL'];
$fp = fopen($filename, "a+");

if (!$fp)
{
echo ('File was not written');
} else {
fwrite ($fp, $text."\n");
fclose ($fp);

echo 'File written </br>';
}
}
With this function, it creates the text file and inputs w/e I put in the text field, but I want to be able to retrieve each link separately to be able to display the RSS, and I want to be able to delete an RSS if I want to.

Could anyone point me into the right direction?

Thanks!

[Clandestinex337]

anyone? I would really like to know how to do this

Thanks

[gaza165]

can i ask why you want to store the url you post into a text file.... are u planning on storing multiple urls in the text file??

[flyhoney]

Im not 100% sure what you are trying to do here, but if the RSS urls are stored in a text file and each url is on a seperate line, you could do this:

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<?php
$rss_urls = file('rss.txt');
foreach ($rss_urls as $url) {
    getRSS($url);
}
?>


[Clandestinex337]

Yes I want to store multiple RSS urls in a txt file and be able to display the RSS feed from the txt file and be able to delete the urls from the text file in any order.

[Clandestinex337]

bump

[flyhoney]

Here is some more to get you started.

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<?php
function getRSS($rss_url)
{
 echo '<h1>' . $rss_url . '</h1>';
   $content = file_get_contents(trim($rss_url));
 if ($content) {
   $xml = new SimpleXmlElement($content);
   foreach($xml->item as $entry)
   {
      echo "<a href='$entry->link' title='$entry->title'>" . $entry->title . "</a></br>";
   }
 }
}

function createRSS($url)
{
   $filename = "rss.txt";
   $fp = fopen($filename, "a+");
   
   if (!$fp)
   {
      echo ('File was not written');
   } else {
      fwrite ($fp, $url."\n");
      fclose ($fp);
      
      echo 'File written </br>';
   }
}

if ($_POST['action'] == 'Add URL') {
createRSS($_POST['url']);
}


$rss_urls = file('rss.txt');


foreach ($rss_urls as $url) {
getRSS($url);
}

?>
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="url" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="action" value="Add URL" />
</form>


[Clandestinex337]

that works in posting into and showing the text file, but it doesn't show the RSS Feed if its a feed url.

[flyhoney]

Hmm, I have the following code working on my server (http://losingallhope.com/rss/):

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<?php
function getRSS($rss_url) {
echo '<h1>' . $rss_url . '</h1>';
$content = file_get_contents(trim($rss_url));
if ($content) {
$xml = new SimpleXmlElement($content);
if (count($xml->channel->item)) {
foreach($xml->channel->item as $entry) {
echo "<a href='$entry->link' title='$entry->title'>" . $entry->title . "</a></br>";
}
} else if (count($xml->item)) {
foreach($xml->item as $entry) {
echo "<a href='$entry->link' title='$entry->title'>" . $entry->title . "</a></br>";
}
}
}
}

function createRSS($url) {
   $filename = "rss.txt";
   $fp = fopen($filename, "a+");
   
   if (!$fp) {
      echo ('File was not written');
   } else {
      fwrite ($fp, $url."\n");
      fclose ($fp);
      
      echo 'File written </br>';
   }
}

if ($_POST['action'] == 'Add URL') {
createRSS($_POST['url']);
}

$rss_urls = file('rss.txt');
foreach ($rss_urls as $url) {
getRSS($url);
}

?>
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="text" name="url" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="action" value="Add URL" />
</form>

As far as removing urls from the text file, im going to leave that exercise for you.

This kind of thing is best left to a database anywayz.

[Clandestinex337]

As far as removing urls from the text file, im going to leave that exercise for you.

This kind of thing is best left to a database anywayz.

Thanks for the help, the script isn't the most user friendly. I've found out it will only work with http://FEEDURL

but most feed links are feed://FEEDURL

Thank for all the help. I appreciate it.

[Clandestinex337]

any idea?

[premiso]

Why not just do a str_replace() and replace feed:// with http://  ??