In this website: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/aflcomau), there many elements in which I would like to obtain to display on my own website. The elements on which I want to obtain are the Title of each news item, their posted time, the description of it and along with the picture in each news.
On their website they have:
<h3 id="currentFeedContent">Current Feed Content</h3>
<ul>
<li class="regularitem" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<h4 class="itemtitle">
<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/aflcomau/~3/mR0Dt1yzINw/are-you-old-enough">Are you old enough? </a>
</h4>
<h5 class="itemposttime">
<span>Posted:</span>Thu, 22 May 2014 23:54:24 GMT</h5>
<div class="itemcontent" name="decodeable"><img width="60" style="float:right;" src="http://www.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL Tenant/Media/Images/292275-tlssmallthumbnail.jpg" alt="2013 NAB AFL U18 Championship - Vic Metro v SA">
<p>Four gun draftees have different takes on the best age to join AFL ranks</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/aflcomau/~4/mR0Dt1yzINw" height="1" width="1" style="display: none !important;"></div>
</li>
<li class="regularitem">
<h4 class="itemtitle">
<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/aflcomau/~3/6O720TT5QWA/tigers-back-hardwick-">Tigers back Hardwick </a>
</h4>
<h5 class="itemposttime">
<span>Posted:</span>Thu, 22 May 2014 22:41:05 GMT</h5>
<div class="itemcontent" name="decodeable"><img width="60" style="float:right;" src="http://www.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL Tenant/Media/Images/325961-tlssmallthumbnail.jpg" alt="AFL 2014 Rd 07 - Geelong v Richmond">
<p>Tigers president breaks silence to back her embattled coach</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/aflcomau/~4/6O720TT5QWA" height="1" width="1" style="display: none !important;"></div>
</li>
</ul>
Does any one know how to put it into an array where there are many news items that contains arrays of Headline, TimePosted, Description and Image?
First off, you need to use file_get_contents() to get the feed. Then after that, you can use simplexml_load_string() to parse the data and get it. Consider this example:
$data = array();
$contents = file_get_contents('http://feeds.feedburner.com/aflcomau?format=xml');
$xml = simplexml_load_string($contents);
$x = 0;
foreach($xml->channel->item as $key => $value) {
foreach($value as $index => $element) {
if($index == 'description') {
// get the proper description
$description = $element;
preg_match('/src=(["\'])(.*?)\1/', $description, $match);
$data[$x]['image_link'] = $match[2];
preg_match('#<p[^>]*>(.*?)</p>#', $description, $match2);
$data[$x]['description'] = $match2[1];
} else {
$data[$x][$index] = htmlentities($element);
}
}
$x++;
}
print_r($data);