LW (linkworth ) has given me a php file to include in the navigation bar. It will show rotating ads via rss feed. How can I include that file
I wrote the following code in global_start
PHP Code:
ob_start();
include('rss_reader.php');
$linkmura = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$templater = vB_Template::create('mytemplate');
$templater->register('my_var', $linkmura);
$templatevalues['linkmura1'] = $templater->render();
vB_Template::preRegister('navbar', $templatevalues);
And using {vb:raw linkmura1} to show that. But nothing is been shown (on navbar
http://www.dstreetdirect.com )
Also the code in the rss_reader.php is :
PHP Code:
<?php
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs)
{
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if($insideitem)
{
$tag = $name;
}
elseif($name == "ITEM")
{
$insideitem = true;
}
}
function endElement($parser, $name)
{
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($name == "ITEM")
{
printf("<dt><b><a href='%s' title='%s'>%s</a></b></dt>",
trim($link),htmlspecialchars(trim($description)),htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));
printf("<dt>%s</dt><br/><br/>",htmlspecialchars(trim($description)));
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$insideitem = false;
}
}
function characterData($parser, $data)
{
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if($insideitem)
{
switch($tag)
{
case "TITLE":
$title .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$link .= $data;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION";
$description .= $data;
break;
}
}
}
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
//====================================================================
//====================================================================
//====================================================================
// ENTER YOUR UNIQUE RSS URL BELOW WHERE YOU SEE THE XXXX's
//====================================================================
//====================================================================
//====================================================================
$fp = fopen("XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
?>
Please smbdy help and tell me easiest way to do that....