0) { // First create a div element as a container for the whole // thing. This makes CSS styling easier. $html = '
'; // Markup the title of the channel as a hyperlink. $html .= '

'. ''. make_safe($channel_title).'

'; // Now iterate through the data array, building HTML for // each news item. $count = 0; foreach ($item_array as $item) { $html .= '
'. make_safe($item['title']).'
'; $html .= '
'.make_safe($item['description']); if ($item['timestamp'] != false) { $html .= '
' . '['. gmdate('H:i, jS F T', $item['timestamp']). ']'; } echo '
'; // Limit the output to five news items. if (++$count == 5) { break; } } $html .= '
'; echo $html; } function make_safe($string) { $string = preg_replace('##s', '', $string); $string = strip_tags($string); // The next line requires PHP 5.2.3, unfortunately. //$string = htmlentities($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false); // Instead, use this set of replacements in older versions of PHP. $string = str_replace('<', '<', $string); $string = str_replace('>', '>', $string); $string = str_replace('(', '(', $string); $string = str_replace(')', ')', $string); $string = str_replace('"', '"', $string); $string = str_replace('\'', ''', $string); return $string; } $string = preg_replace('##s', '', $string); echo "$string"; ?>