RSS Parser

This is an easy way to convert RSS data to an array so that it is easy to access that data and do stuff with it, enjoy:

PHP Code:

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function parse_rss($data) {
    $data = iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $data); // Remove invalid characters
    
    $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
    xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, 'UTF-8'); 

    if (!xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $data, $vals, $index)) {
        die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
            xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
            xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
    }
    xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
    
    return $vals;
} 


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To experiment with the above code you could try:

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PHP Code:

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$data = file_get_contents("http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=weight+loss&cf=all&output=rss");

$result = parse_rss($data);

print_r($result); 


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