Multiple URL RSS Parsing With PHP

PHP Rss Feeds With Magpie

This lesson explains the usage of Magpie to parse multiple rss feeds. Installing Magpie is shown here.

Firstly, the file rss_fetch.inc needs to be imported with the require() function in order to parse the feeds in the first place. Then, an array of urls is created for the various RSS feeds. Then, one at a time, the rss feed urls go through the fetch_rss() function located in the Magpie installation. Next, Magpie returns an array called $items and that data is parsed. Finally, the data is printed. Note, the feeds will output the data from the first url, then output the second url. If you want to combine the feeds and order them all like they come from the same place, please see this tutorial for parsing rss feeds.

require('magpie/rss_fetch.inc');
	
	$urls = array('http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/cta/index.rss', 'http://vancouver.kijiji.ca/f-SearchAdRss?CatId=174&Location=80003');
	
	foreach($urls as $url) {
	$rss = fetch_rss($url);

foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
	$title = $item[title];
	$url   = $item[link];
	$description   = $item[description];
	$date = $item['dc']['date'];
	echo "<a href='".$url."'>".$title."</a>-".$description."-".$date."<br>";
//make array here
}
}

Code Samples:
Parse Single URL RSS Feed
Parse Multiple URLs RSS Feed Into a Table Part 2

October 6, 2012 by kent