Desperately Need Help With MagpieRSS

Hey guys,

Okay you solved my problem last time but this one is really tough.

Okay in an rss feed like metacafe (http://feeds.feedburner.com/metacafe/TYps) there exists the .swf file for each video.

<media:content url="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/435885/car_vs_motorcycle_vs_firefighter.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" medium="video" height="345" width="400" duration="46" />

<media:player url="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/435885/car_vs_motorcycle_vs_firefighter/" />

<media:thumbnail url="http://images.metacafe.com/thumb/435885/3051265/4/rss_feed5/0/car_vs_motorcycle_vs_firefighter.jpg" width="170" height="138" />
<media:title>CAR VS Motorcycle VS FireFighter</media:title>
<media:keywords>porsche,r1,drift,cars,speed,drag,race,motorcycle,motorbike</media:keywords>
<media:credit>Juan Roman Riquelme</media:credit>

Code (markup):

Now I want to get http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/435885/car_vs_motorcycle_vs_firefighter.swf from the media:content url="" field.

PROBLEM:

Magpie seems to not like this kind of tags. It likes <tag>value</tag> so that you can just use:

$string = $item['tag'];

Magpie also just likes to cut out the : part of it and just call it media.

I did this:

$string = $item['media']; and got Array.

Because magpie doesn't support this kind of tags (which I think is so stupid). Can I extract this information in any other way.

I tried pregmatch it but either it couldn't or I wasn't doing it right.

I would appreciate all your ideas.

Thanks

Skinny

 

Hey Skinny,

I don't have any experience with Magpie RSS, but this may be what you are looking to do:

$string = $item['media']['content'];

Code (markup):

This is from their website:

$rss->items is an array of associative arrays, each one describing a single item. An example that looks like:

<item rdf:about="http://protest.net/NorthEast/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=210257">
<title>Weekly Peace Vigil</title>
<link>http://protest.net/NorthEast/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=210257</link>
<description>Wear a white ribbon</description>
<dc:subject>Peace</dc:subject>
<ev:startdate>2002-06-01T11:00:00</ev:startdate>
<ev:location>Northampton, MA</ev:location>
<ev:enddate>2002-06-01T12:00:00</ev:enddate>
<ev:type>Protest</ev:type>
</item>

Is parsed, and pushed on the $rss->items array as:

array(
	title => 'Weekly Peace Vigil',
	link => 'http://protest.net/NorthEast/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=210257',
	description => 'Wear a white ribbon',
	dc => array (
			subject => 'Peace'
		),
	ev => array (
		startdate => '2002-06-01T11:00:00',
		enddate => '2002-06-01T12:00:00',
		type => 'Protest',
		location => 'Northampton, MA'
	)
);

Code (markup):

Hope this is helpful and what you were looking for.

 

Sorry to bump this old post but I need the same thing and still cannot find an answer. Has anybody found one?