Comments on: Using PHP cURL to read RSS feed XML

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:41:44 +0000

I don’t often do stuff with rss, so I am not sure if this is common, but I had to tweak this script to work with craigslist rss feeds. In their feed the item elements are not children of channel. Therefore I had to change $xml->channel->item to $xml->item whenever it appeared in the rss function.

By: San

San — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:19:01 +0000

Gr8 article ..Exactly what i was looking for .Was able to use CURL and get data from XML file in minutes

By: Lig radyo

Lig radyo — Sun, 08 May 2011 23:24:03 +0000

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By: webdesigner

webdesigner — Tue, 03 May 2011 00:09:38 +0000

“Note, how we get to node attributes: $urlAtt = $xml->entry->link[0]->attributes(), now $urlAtt is associative array where attribute name is array key and attribute value is a value for this key.”

just to make things more clear you could have posted it. but thanks for the easy to understand tutorial.

By: Greg Winiarski

Greg Winiarski — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:25:03 +0000

@Caleb, it’s actually a standard XML file, you can just load it using SimpleXMLElement and use as an object.

By: Deep C

Deep C — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:40:20 +0000

You made it quite easy to understand …

Keep up the Good Work !!

By: Caleb

Caleb — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:20:29 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I have a question if you can afford to respond back.
What about non-standard xml formats like oodle xml feeds(link below):

http://api.oodle.com/api/v2/listings?key=TEST&region=chicago&category=vehicle/car

Do you know of a way to parse it ? than in advance!

By: Kapil

Kapil — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:24:31 +0000

Nice script thanks dear..

By: stanley wing

stanley wing — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:35:57 +0000

It is really a very useful artcle and solved me problem, thanks so much…!!

By: boss

boss — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:24:17 +0000

eey anyone cane give greg’s mail id so that i can contact him directly?