C++ or PHP RSS reading library

[imblack]

Hello!

Can anyone please tell me a simple to use RSS reading library for C++ or PHP?
Like I just want to extract news/updates title and description thats it, all text.

I used TinyXml parser with C++ and Curl to make something, but it crashes on BBC.co.uk's RSS feed, only on that, digg.com etc work fine.

Please save me some time and if you want I can share my solution too.

Thanks!

[cszikszoy]

I've ussed LastRSS before, and it's very simple but pretty good. It's PHP. Give it a try: http://lastrss.oslab.net/

[Reiger]

I must be a bit annoying by now; but alternatively you can use a half decent XSL stylesheet to extract what you need, format it as you need and output.

Try something like:

script.php


<?php
/*
* left to the reader to implement,
* should return the path to the XSL sylesheet.
*/
function stylesheet();

/*
* left to the reader to implement,
* should return the URL of the RSS feed
*/
function getURL();

$contents = file_get_contents(getURL());
$rssDoc = new DOMDocument();
$rssDoc->loadXML($contents);

$xslDoc = new DOMDocument();
$xslDoc->loadXML(stylesheet());

$xslProc = new XSLTProcessor();
$xslProc->importStylesheet($xslDoc);

$result= $xslProc->transformToXML($rssDoc);
echo $result;


And an XSL stylesheet like this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:transform version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<!--
- edit this to be suitable for your OS
- &#x0A is the linefeed (\n)
- &#x0D is the carriage return (\r)
-->
<xsl:variable name="LINE_BREAK" select="'&#x0A;'"/>
<xsl:template match="//*[local-name() = 'item']/*">
<!-- output element name, e.g. 'description' -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat(local-name(),':')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$LINE_BREAK"/>

<!-- output text content -->
<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$LINE_BREAK"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>

[imblack]

Much appreciated mate. I'll try both of these and will get back, moreover if some one has other options tell me please.

[imblack]

I've ussed LastRSS before, and it's very simple but pretty good. It's PHP. Give it a try: http://lastrss.oslab.net/

I must say I am loving this thing. So so straight forward and exactly what i wanted :)
and Thanks Reige, if something comes in way of using above solution ill try yours :)

And if you are curious, I have a free(as of yet) SMS based service that let you find people, make groups etc and I am adding RSS reader to it so the subscribed users get frequent update of feeds they have subscribed to through text messages.
Hope you like the idea.

[ja660k]

try this
http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RSS

if you have PEAR modules enabled in php that is.
and it comes with an example...



Fetching headlines from Slashdot
<?php
require_once "XML/RSS.php";

$rss =& new XML_RSS("http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot");
$rss->parse();

echo "<h1>Headlines from <a href=\"http://slashdot.org\">Slashdot</a></h1>\n";
echo "<ul>\n";

foreach ($rss->getItems() as $item) {
echo "<li><a href=\"" . $item['link'] . "\">" . $item['title'] . "</a></li>\n";
}

echo "</ul>\n";
?>

[imblack]

I have heard bad things about PEAR, can you please give me a brief overview?
I know that it has been around long enough.