David,
I just wanted to know if it is possible to put more than 1 RSS feed onto a single page.
I have more than a dozen RSS feeds and would like them all to post to one page or a set of pages numbered at the bottom. Is this possible?
Thanks
Matt
David,
I followed the first example that you had given. I am not sure what the issue is because it is now throwing any errors. I put the feed into a file per the example and into the rss directory. When I go to the PHP file I created I do not see any of the Feed, only the "Next". I did check to see if there was anything to display and in the 4 test files I used there was when I want to the actual feed.
Thanks
Matt
Hi Matt,
I wouldn't recommend parsing more than one RSS feed in real time into a page - and ideally they should be cached on your server over a reasonable period to avoid making a request to the server providing the RSS feed for every request of your page - although if the RSS files are saved locally, that's fine. Perhaps it's best to work on an example on that basis; and then look at other ways to automate the retrieval of your RSS feeds if you need to do that.
Assuming that you create a folder called rss/ within your Price Tapestry installation folder, the following code will display all items in each feed listed in an array of feeds; with a link to "Next" if there are more to display. Have a go with something like this; which I've based on the Magic Parser BBC News example:
<?phprequire("includes/common.php");
require("includes/MagicParser.php");
function myRecordHandler($item)
{
print "<h2><a href='".$item["LINK"]."'>".$item["TITLE"]."</a></h2>";
print "<p>".$item["DESCRIPTION"]."</p>";
}
require("html/header.php");
$rss = array();
$rss[] = "rss/feed1.xml";
$rss[] = "rss/feed2.xml";
$rss[] = "rss/feed3.xml";
$rss[] = "rss/feed4.xml";
$page = ($_GET["page"]?$_GET["page"]:1);
MagicParser_parse($rss[$page],"myRecordHandler","xml|RSS/CHANNEL/ITEM/");
if ($page < count($rss))
{
print "<p><a href='?page=".($page+1)."'>Next</a></p>";
}
require("html/footer.php");
?>
Although having said that - if all the feeds are on your server then all on one page is no problem...!
<?phprequire("includes/common.php");
require("includes/MagicParser.php");
function myRecordHandler($item)
{
print "<h2><a href='".$item["LINK"]."'>".$item["TITLE"]."</a></h2>";
print "<p>".$item["DESCRIPTION"]."</p>";
}
require("html/header.php");
$rss = array();
$rss[] = "rss/feed1.xml";
$rss[] = "rss/feed2.xml";
$rss[] = "rss/feed3.xml";
$rss[] = "rss/feed4.xml";
foreach($rss as $feed)
{
MagicParser_parse($feed,"myRecordHandler","xml|RSS/CHANNEL/ITEM/");
}
require("html/footer.php");
?>
Hope this points you in the right direction!
Cheers,
David.