i'm trying to include an RSS feed of headlines to my sidebar. is there anyone who can tell me how to pull that off?
this is the code I want to include from my file blogfeed.php. i know that i can't just copy and paste this into the template.
PHP Code:
$feed = 'http://www.trickology.com/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=1';
class RSSParser {
var $insideitem = false;
var $tag = "";
var $title = "";
var $link = "";
function startElement($parser, $tagName, $attrs) {
if ($this->insideitem) {
$this->tag = $tagName;
} elseif ($tagName == "ITEM") {
$this->insideitem = true;
}
}
function endElement($parser, $tagName) {
if ($tagName == "ITEM") {
printf("<a href='%s' class='headlines'>%s</a><br>",
trim($this->link),htmlspecialchars(trim($this->title)));
$this->title = "";
$this->description = "";
$this->link = "";
$this->insideitem = false;
}
}
function characterData($parser, $data) {
if ($this->insideitem) {
switch ($this->tag) {
case "TITLE":
$this->title .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$this->link .= $data;
break;
}
}
}
}
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
$rss_parser = new RSSParser();
xml_set_object($xml_parser,&$rss_parser);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
$fp = fopen($feed,"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);