viewing multiple RSS files

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by ashrafzia, Apr 1, 2006.

  1. #1
    I want to acess RSS from different sites.
    I have the following code for viewing RSS from different Sites.
    Error is: Only Last Link i-e cnn_law.rss is retriewing others are not!
    if i don't take $file as an array and only take one URL then its working fine but in case of array its not working and giving the above error.

    
    <?php
    
    set_time_limit(0);
    
    $file[0] = "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss";
    $file[1] = "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_health.rss";
    $file[2] = "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_law.rss";
    
    $rss_channel = array();
    $currently_writing = "";
    $main = "";
    $item_counter = 0;
    
    function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
           global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main;
           switch($name) {
               case "RSS":
               case "RDF:RDF":
               case "ITEMS":
                   $currently_writing = "";
                   break;
               case "CHANNEL":
                   $main = "CHANNEL";
                   break;
               case "IMAGE":
                   $main = "IMAGE";
                   $rss_channel["IMAGE"] = array();
                   break;
               case "ITEM":
                   $main = "ITEMS";
                   break;
               default:
                   $currently_writing = $name;
                   break;
           }
    }
    
    function endElement($parser, $name) {
           global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $item_counter;
           $currently_writing = "";
           if ($name == "ITEM") {
               $item_counter++;
           }
    }
    
    function characterData($parser, $data) {
        global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main, $item_counter;
        if ($currently_writing != "") {
            switch($main) {
                case "CHANNEL":
                    if (isset($rss_channel[$currently_writing])) {
                        $rss_channel[$currently_writing] .= $data;
                    } else {
                        $rss_channel[$currently_writing] = $data;
                    }
                    break;
                case "IMAGE":
                    if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing])) {
                        $rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing] .= $data;
                    } else {
                        $rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing] = $data;
                    }
                    break;
                case "ITEMS":
                    if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing])) {
                        $rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] .= $data;
                    } else {
                        $rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] = $data;
                    }
                    break;
            }
        }
    }
    
    $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
    xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
    xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
    
    for($i=0;$i<3;$i++)
    {
    if (!($fp = fopen($file[$i], "r")))
    {
        die("could not open XML input");
            $i++;  
    }
    }
    
    while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
        if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
            die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                        xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                        xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
        }
    }
    xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
    
    // output HTML
    print ("<div class=\"channelname\">" . $rss_channel["TITLE"] . "</div>"); 
    
    if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"])) {
        if (count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]) > 0) {
            for($i = 0;$i < count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]);$i++) {
                if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"])) {
                print ("\n<div class=\"itemtitle\"><a href=\"" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"] . "\">" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"] . "</a></div>");
                } else {
                print ("\n<div class=\"itemtitle\">" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"] . "</div>");
                }
                 print ("<div class=\"itemdescription\">" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["DESCRIPTION"] . "</div><br />");         }
        } else {
            print ("<b>There are no articles in this feed.</b>");
        }
    }
    
    ?>
    Code (markup):

     
    ashrafzia, Apr 1, 2006 IP