Retrieving news headlines from an external RSS fille

[alisdairi]

I've made a little ticker for my site and now I want to make it access the BBC headlines from:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/world/rss091.xml

Unfortunately, I don't know how to embed the text from this page into my site. How?

I appreciate any help I can get.

[Khalid Ali]

rss files are XML files,you will need to read the XML file,parse the contents and display them.

The RSS files have a the following format
<item><!-- represents one item of data, below is the rest of the contents//-->

<title>Tite of hte item</title>
<description>Description of the conent</description>
<link>URL:</link>
</title>
The best option will be to use server side language to open the rss file and process it and then diplay it in a page....

[alisdairi]

I was hoping I wouldn't have to. My php is limited, but I guess I will do it that way. I was jsut being lazy. Would this work to access the file before parsing?

$filename = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/world/rss091.xml" ;
$fp = fopen ($filename , 'rb' );
$filevalue = fread ($fp , filesize ($filename ));
fclose ($fp );

echo $filevalue ;

??

[Khalid Ali]

it should....I am not way too familiar with php ,but I know that it has some mecahnism to read XML files as well,I am sure you will be better off using that for RSS files.

[XMLMania.com]

ROFL - You can't just open an XML file in PHP and expect it to be parsed...

Try: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php for PHP's XML functions.

And there are many RSS parsers at http://www.hotscripts.com

- Martin

[Khalid Ali]

Originally posted by XMLMania.com
ROFL
- Martin

I beg your pardon, what did I miss that was so funny...