Rss feed help

I have the follow code that I was given to display an rss feed. When I test it, it says

"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /home/wayneroo/public_html/bigfreebet.com/test44.php on line 6"

If I take out the [] on line 6 which is: $max = [6]; /* Number results outputted */, I says no feed available, which is not right. I have tried it with lots of feeds and none work.

Could someone have a look for me please

<?PHP 

$feed	= "[http://rss.paddypower.com/rss/AffiliateFootballSteamers.xml]";
$AFF_ID = "[10001227]";
$noresults     = "[NO RESULTS MESSAGE]";
$max = [6];    /* Number results outputted */ 

$count         = 0; 

// Create an XML parser 
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); 

// Set the functions to handle opening and closing tags 
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement"); 

// Set the function to handle blocks of character data 
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData"); 

// Open the XML file for reading 
$fp = @fopen($feed ,"r") or die("No feed available."); 

// Read the XML file 4KB at a time 
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) { 

   // Parse each 4KB chunk with the XML parser created above 
   xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)) 
       // Handle errors in parsing 
       or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", 
           xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), 
           xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser))); 
} 

// Close the XML file 
fclose($fp); 

// Free up memory used by the XML parser 
xml_parser_free($xml_parser); 

if($count == 0) { 
    echo $noresults; 
} 

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) { 
    global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link; 
    if ($insideitem) { 
        $tag = $name; 
    } elseif ($name == "ITEM") { 
        $insideitem = true; 
    } 
} 
function endElement($parser, $name ) { 
    global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $AFF_ID, $max, $count; 
    if ($name == "ITEM" && $count < $max) { 
        printf("<b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b><br>", trim($link)."&AFF_ID=".$AFF_ID,htmlspecialchars(trim($title))); 
        printf("%s<br><br>", html_entity_decode(trim($description))); 
        $title = ""; 
        $description = ""; 
        $link = ""; 
        $insideitem = false; 
        $count++; 
    } 
} 

function characterData($parser, $data) { 
    global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link; 
    if ($insideitem) { 
        switch ($tag) { 
            case "TITLE": 
            $title .= $data; 
            break; 
            case "DESCRIPTION": 
            $description .= $data; 
            break; 
            case "LINK": 
            $link .= $data; 
            break; 
        } 
    } 
} 

?>  

PHP:

 

Try removing the brackets around 6
Change

$max = [6]; 

PHP:

to

$max=6;

PHP:

 

As I said, I have tried that and it just says "no feeds available".

I tested it with lots of working feeds to see if this was true and it says it on all of them, so its going wrong somewhere in the code.

 

<?PHP

$feed = "http://rss.paddypower.com/rss/AffiliateFootballSteamers.xml";
$AFF_ID = "[10001227]";
$noresults = "[NO RESULTS MESSAGE]";
$max = 6; /* Number results outputted */

$count = 0;

// Create an XML parser
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

// Set the functions to handle opening and closing tags
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");

// Set the function to handle blocks of character data
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

// Open the XML file for reading
$fp = fopen($feed ,"r") or die("No feed available.");

// Read the XML file 4KB at a time
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {

// Parse each 4KB chunk with the XML parser created above
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
// Handle errors in parsing
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

// Close the XML file
fclose($fp);

// Free up memory used by the XML parser
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

if($count == 0) {
echo $noresults;
}

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
$tag = $name;
} elseif ($name == "ITEM") {
$insideitem = true;
}
}
function endElement($parser, $name ) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $AFF_ID, $max, $count;
if ($name == "ITEM" && $count < $max) {
printf("<b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b><br>", trim($link)."&AFF_ID=".$AFF_ID,htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));
printf("%s<br><br>", html_entity_decode(trim($description)));
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$insideitem = false;
$count++;
}
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
switch ($tag) {
case "TITLE":
$title .= $data;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION":
$description .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$link .= $data;
break;
}
}
}

?>



Seems to work

 

thanks, thats great!

do you know how to make the feed links target="_blank" and nofollow?

thanks

 

Well, I haven't tried this out, but on this line:

printf("<b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b><br>", trim($link)."&AFF_ID=".$AFF_ID,htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));

I would simply change it to

printf("<b><a href='%s' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">%s</a></b><br>", trim($link)."&AFF_ID=".$AFF_ID,htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));

 

Thanks, it works!

Do you know how to do the same in a dropdown list?

It doesn't seem to work the same


http://www.play-hookey.com/htmltest/

<form name="htmlMenu">

 <select name="htmlSelList" size="1">

<option value="">Please select...</option>
                                                                  
<option value="http://www.google.com">Google</option>

</select>
                                                                  
<input type="button" onClick="document.location =document.htmlMenu.htmlSelList.options [document.htmlMenu.htmlSelList.selectedIndex].value;"value="GO">
                                                                  
    </form>

PHP:

 

Hmm... I'm not very familiar with drop downs... It's more of javascript than php.

 

Ok, thanks anyway. I will have a look around