Coollege Football Scheduler Wordpress to vB conversion needed

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All,

I found a good piece of code from a Wordpress programmer. I was curious as to if anyone knew how to translate this to work in vB. I have some XML files to use to get the results, but it is not going to help if I can't get it to work in vB.

PHP Code:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: fanWidget  
Description: College Football Schedule for your WP Blog/Site
Author: Alvin Kreitman 
Version: 1.0
Plugin URI: http://www.techkismet.com/fanwidget_ncaa_football_for_wp
Author URI: http://techkismet.com
License: MIT License - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Warranties: See Licensing Information
Last Modified: 09/07/2007
*/

// Add the widget to plugin loading
function widget_fanwidget_init() {

        // Check for the sidebar widget functions
    if ( !function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') || !function_exists('register_widget_control') )
            return;
    
    // This var is the URL to link to promote this wordpress widget
        $home_url = "http://techkismet.com/fanwidget_ncaa_football_for_wp";

    // configuration form  
    function widget_fanwidget_control() {
        $options = $newoptions = get_option('widget_fanwidget');
        if ($_POST['fanwidget-submit']) {
            $newoptions['team_key'] = $_POST['fanwidget-team'];
            $newoptions['fanwidget-title'] = $_POST['fanwidget-title'];
        }

        if ($options != $newoptions) {
            $options = $newoptions;
            update_option('widget_fanwidget', $options);
        }

        // These XML files are for the use of this widget only.  If you want access to the data, please contact me.
        $xmlstr = file_get_contents("http://fanwidgets.com/wp-widgets/ncaafb_teams_xml.php");
        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
    
        # Build select dropdown
        $s = "<select name='fanwidget-team'>";
        foreach($xml->teams->entity as $e) {
            $s .= '<option value="' . $e->md5key . '"' . ($e->md5key == $options['team_key'] ? ' selected' : '') . '>' . $e->DisplayName . '</option>';
        }
        $s .= "</select>";

        ?>
            <p style="text-align:left;"><label>Title: &nbsp; <input type="text" name="fanwidget-title" value = "<?= $options['fanwidget-title'] ?>"></label> </p>
            <p style="text-align:left;"><label>Team: &nbsp;
            <?= $s ?></label></p>
            <input type="hidden" id="fanwidget-submit" name="fanwidget-submit" value="1">
        <?php
    
        }

    function widget_load_stylesheet() {
        echo '<link href="http://fanwidgets.com/wp-widgets/css/widget_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />';
    }

        // This shows the widget on the sidebar
        function widget_fanwidget($args) {
                extract($args);
        $options = get_option('widget_fanwidget');
        $title = $options['fanwidget-title']; 

        // These XML files are for the use of this widget only.  If you want access to the data, please contact me.
            // Page used as a parameter in XML requests.
            $p = get_bloginfo('url') . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

        $xmlstr = file_get_contents("http://fanwidgets.com/wp-widgets/ncaafb_schedule_xml.php?id={$options['team_key']}&p={$p}");
        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);

        ?>    
        <?php echo $before_widget; ?>
                    <?php print($before_title . $title . $after_title)  ?>

<div id="fanwidgets">
<h2><?= $xml->team_name ?> 
    <?php 
    $rank = (int) $xml->national_rank;
    if($rank > 0) { 
        ?> 
        <span>(<?= $rank ?>)</span>
        <?php
    } 
    ?>
    </h2>
    <div class="rec">Record <?= $xml->overall_record ?> (Con:<?= $xml->conference_record ?>)</div>


<ul id="schedule">
    <?php
        foreach ($xml->game as $g) { 
            $team = short_text($g->opponent_name, 19, "..")
            ?>
            <li><div class="date"><?= $g->game_date ?></div>
            <div class="team"><?= ($g->home_away == "away" ? "at " : "") . $team ?></div>
            <?php
                if ($g->result == "0") {
                    ?>
                    <div class="result"><?= $g->game_time ?></div>
                    <?php
                } else {
                    ?>
                    <div class="result <?= ($g->result == "W" ? " win" : " loss") ?>">
                    <?= $g->result . " " . $g->score ?></div>
                    <?php
                }
            ?>
            <div class="clear"></div>
            </li>
        <?php
        }
    ?>
</ul>

<p class="time">* All times are ET</p> 

<!-- to support this widget, please leave this link in here -->
<a href="<?= $home_url ?>"><img src="http://fanwidgets.com/wp-widgets/images/plus.gif" class="plus" border="0" /></a>
<div class="clear"></div>

</div>
<!-- please do not remove this comment or code  ||widget_key==b248e38421ff3cd18b6b2bb7174a87f2|| -->

            <?php echo $after_widget; ?>
        <?php
    }

        // Tell the sidebar about the Twitter widget and its control
        register_sidebar_widget('fanWidget', 'widget_fanwidget');
        register_widget_control('fanWidget', 'widget_fanwidget_control');
    add_action('wp_head', 'widget_load_stylesheet');

    function short_text($text,$num,$trail) {

             $chars = $num;

            if (strlen($text) > $chars) {
       
                    $text = $text." ";
                 $text = substr($text,0,$chars);
                 #$text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
                 $text = $text."$trail";
            }

             return $text;
    }

}

add_action('widgets_init', 'widget_fanwidget_init');

?>