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PHP: Creating an array of objects to store atom rss data

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  1. <?php
  2. error_reporting(E_ALL); // shows all errors, remove this on live sites
  3.  
  4. $feedURL = 'http://mydomain.com/rss/example.xml';
  5. $getFILE = get_content($feedURL) or die("feed not loading");
  6. $xml = simplexml_load_string($getFILE, NULL, LIBXML_NOCDATA); // Set CDATA as text nodes
  7. $xml->registerXPathNamespace('atom', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'); // define namespace atom
  8.  
  9.     class oEntry
  10.     {
  11.         public $url;
  12.         public $author;
  13.         public $date;
  14.         public $text;
  15.  
  16.         function oEntry($url, $author, $date, $text) {
  17.         	$this->url = $url;
  18.         	$this->author = $author;
  19.         	$this->date = $date;
  20.         	$this->text = $text;
  21.         }
  22.     } 
  23.  
  24. 	foreach($xml->xpath('atom:entry') as $entry) {
  25. 		// array of objects
  26. 		$e[] = new oEntry($xml->link['href'], $entry->author->name, $entry->published, $entry->content); 	
  27. 	} // end foreach
  28.  
  29. ?>
  30.  
  31. SAMPLE XML INPUT (you need to fill out the tags):
  32. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  33. <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">
  34.   <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="" />
  35.   <id></id>
  36.   <updated></updated>
  37.   <title></title>
  38.  
  39.   <entry>
  40.     <id></id>
  41.     <thr:in-reply-to ref="" type="text/html" href=""/>
  42.     <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="" />
  43.     <title></title>
  44.     <author>
  45.         <name></name>
  46.         <uri></uri>
  47.     </author>
  48.     <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="">
  49.         <![CDATA[<p>html text goes here</p>]]>
  50.     </content>
  51.     <published>February 20, 2010  2:23 AM</published>
  52.   </entry>
  53.  
  54. </feed>

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