RSS and PHP

If you want to display your (or other's) news at your website – you will be amazed by how simple it is.

// caching the RSS file
// place where to store the cache file
$filename = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/cache/phpnews.rss";

// checking how old the file is
$modif=time()-@filemtime ("$filename");

// if there is no file in the cache or it is too old - update it
if(!file_exists($filename) || $modif>"3600")
  {
   $rss = file_get_contents("http://www.php.net/news.rss");

   $handle = fopen ("$filename", "w");

   fwrite($handle, $rss);

   fclose($handle);
  }

// importing the RSS library from the PEAR package
require_once("XML/RSS.php");

    $rss =& new XML_RSS("$filename");

    $rss->parse();

    foreach ($rss->getItems() as $value) {

// making the news string
$page = $page."<b>".$value['dc:date']."</b><a href=\"".$value['link']."\" class=\"menu\">"." ".$value['title']. "</a><br>" .$value['description'] . "\n";
}

// displaying the result
echo"$page";

This script demonstrates the basic idea of working with RSS files. If you want to use a ready-made solution, Feed2Html is exactly what you need.