[Wanted] Google news grabber (script) on PHP

I am looking for php script, that gets last news from Google RSS channel (http://news.google.com/?output=rss).

To get title, link and description - there is no problem. There problem is to parse description that have html tags. I need only simple title, descriptions, that describes the article, link to the image and link to the google page with this news article.

Thanks!

 

Not sure if I understand your problem. What happens if a description has HTML? Doesn't it parse correctly? Do you want to remove it?

If you want to remove the HTML from the description, you could do:

$description = strip_tags(html_entity_decode($description));

PHP:

 

Google returned this description:

<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td width=80 align=center valign=top><a  href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1i-0&fd=R&url=http://www.thebostonchannel.com/sports/14543862/detail.html&cid=1123206686&ei=xio0R_W6MZyG0gG1vPTRBQ"><img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=zgNhZn2YoqcJ&imgurl=www.thebostonchannel.com/2007/1029/14444805_240X180.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1><br><font size=-2>Boston Channel.com</font></a></td><td valign=top class=j><br><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-0&fd=R&url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-dog_bite_09nov09,1,1515495.story&cid=1123206686&ei=xio0R_W6MZyG0gG1vPTRBQ">Father charged in <b>dog's</b> mutilation of infant son</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Chicago Tribune,&nbsp;United States&nbsp;-</font> <nobr>5 hours ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>Charges were filed against a  Lake Villa man Thursday after his girlfriend's <b>dog</b> seriously injured the man's 4-month-old son, authorities said. <b>...</b></font><br><font size=-1><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-1&fd=R&url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-dog_bite_bothnov06,0,657910.story%3Fcoll%3Dchi-technology-col&cid=1123206686&ei=xio0R_W6MZyG0gG1vPTRBQ"><b>Dog</b> mutilates sleeping infant in Waukegan</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>Chicago Tribune</nobr></font></font><br><font class=p size=-1><a class=p href=http://news.google.com/?ie=ISO-8859-1&ncl=1123206686&hl=en><nobr>all 56 news articles</nobr></a></font></div></td></tr></table>

PHP:

I found some function, that parse this code:

preg_match_all("|<td valign=top><a href=\"(.*)\" id=(.*)><b>(.*)</b></a><br><font size=-1><font color=\#6f6f6f><b>(.*)&nbsp;-</font> <nobr>(.*)</nobr></b></font><br><font size=-1>(.*)</font>|Ui",$google,$result);

/*

Output info:
$result[0] - complete results, just junk, not always useable
$result[1] - Array of news URL's
$result[2] - Array of news id's (sed by google, best to ignore)
$result[3] - Array of news headlines
$result[4] - Array of news sources
$result[5] - Array of posted times
$result[6] - Array of news descriptions

*/

PHP:

But it is not work

 

need update.