Best way to parse RSS Atom feeds with PHP

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I m currently using Magpie RSS but it sometimes falls over when the RSS or Atom feed isn t well formed  Are there any other options for parsing RSS and Atom feeds with PHP

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The PHP RSS reader - http   www scriptol com rss rss-reader php - is a complete but simple parser used by thousand of users

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With 4 lines  I import a rss to an array    feed   implode file  http   yourdomains com feed rss      xml   simplexml load string  feed    json   json encode  xml    array   json decode  json TRUE     For a more complex solution   feed   new DOMDocument      feed- gt load  file rss      json   array      json  title      feed- gt getElementsByTagName  channel  - gt item 0 - gt getElementsByTagName  title  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    json  description      feed- gt getElementsByTagName  channel  - gt item 0 - gt getElementsByTagName  description  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    json  link      feed- gt getElementsByTagName  channel  - gt item 0 - gt getElementsByTagName  link  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    items    feed- gt getElementsByTagName  channel  - gt item 0 - gt getElementsByTagName  item       json  item     array      i   0    foreach  items as  key   gt   item      title    item- gt getElementsByTagName  title  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    description    item- gt getElementsByTagName  description  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    pubDate    item- gt getElementsByTagName  pubDate  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    guid    item- gt getElementsByTagName  guid  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue     json  item    key   title      title    json  item    key   description      description    json  item    key   pubdate      pubDate    json  item    key   guid      guid       echo json encode  json

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If feed isn t well-formed XML  you re supposed to reject it  no exceptions  You re entitled to call feed creator a bozo    Otherwise you re paving way to mess that HTML ended up in

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Personally I use BNC Advanced Feed Parser- i like the template system that is very easy to use

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Your other options include    SimplePie Last RSS PHP Universal Feed Parser

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The PHP RSS reader - http   www scriptol com rss rss-reader php - is a complete but simple parser used by thousand of users

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Another great free parser - http   bncscripts com free-php-rss-parser  It s very light   only 3kb   and simple to use

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Personally I use BNC Advanced Feed Parser- i like the template system that is very easy to use

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I ve always used the SimpleXML functions built in to PHP to parse XML documents  It s one of the few generic parsers out there that has an intuitive structure to it  which makes it extremely easy to build a meaningful class for something specific like an RSS feed  Additionally  it will detect XML warnings and errors  and upon finding any you could simply run the source through something like HTML Tidy  as ceejayoz mentioned  to clean it up and attempt it again   Consider this very rough  simple class using SimpleXML   class BlogPost       var  date      var  ts      var  link       var  title      var  text     class BlogFeed       var  posts   array         function   construct  file or url                 file or url    this- gt resolveFile  file or url           if     x   simplexml load file  file or url                return           foreach   x- gt channel- gt item as  item                         post   new BlogPost                 post- gt date     string   item- gt pubDate               post- gt ts      strtotime  item- gt pubDate                post- gt link     string   item- gt link               post- gt title    string   item- gt title               post- gt text     string   item- gt description                  Create summary as a shortened body and remove images                  extraneous line breaks  etc               post- gt summary    this- gt summarizeText  post- gt text                 this- gt posts      post                       private function resolveFile  file or url            if   preg match    https       file or url                feed uri     SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT      shared xml     file or url          else              feed uri    file or url           return  feed uri             private function summarizeText  summary             summary   strip tags  summary               Truncate summary line to 100 characters          max len   100          if  strlen  summary   gt   max len               summary   substr  summary  0   max len                    return  summary

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I use SimplePie to parse a Google Reader feed and it works pretty well and has a decent feature set   Of course  I haven t tested it with non-well-formed RSS   Atom feeds so I don t know how it copes with those  I m assuming Google s are fairly standards compliant

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Another great free parser - http   bncscripts com free-php-rss-parser  It s very light   only 3kb   and simple to use

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The HTML Tidy library is able to fix some malformed XML files  Running your feeds through that before passing them on to the parser may help

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I use SimplePie to parse a Google Reader feed and it works pretty well and has a decent feature set   Of course  I haven t tested it with non-well-formed RSS   Atom feeds so I don t know how it copes with those  I m assuming Google s are fairly standards compliant

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With 4 lines  I import a rss to an array    feed   implode file  http   yourdomains com feed rss      xml   simplexml load string  feed    json   json encode  xml    array   json decode  json TRUE     For a more complex solution   feed   new DOMDocument      feed- gt load  file rss      json   array      json  title      feed- gt getElementsByTagName  channel  - gt item 0 - gt getElementsByTagName  title  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    json  description      feed- gt getElementsByTagName  channel  - gt item 0 - gt getElementsByTagName  description  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    json  link      feed- gt getElementsByTagName  channel  - gt item 0 - gt getElementsByTagName  link  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    items    feed- gt getElementsByTagName  channel  - gt item 0 - gt getElementsByTagName  item       json  item     array      i   0    foreach  items as  key   gt   item      title    item- gt getElementsByTagName  title  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    description    item- gt getElementsByTagName  description  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    pubDate    item- gt getElementsByTagName  pubDate  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue    guid    item- gt getElementsByTagName  guid  - gt item 0 - gt firstChild- gt nodeValue     json  item    key   title      title    json  item    key   description      description    json  item    key   pubdate      pubDate    json  item    key   guid      guid       echo json encode  json

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If feed isn t well-formed XML  you re supposed to reject it  no exceptions  You re entitled to call feed creator a bozo    Otherwise you re paving way to mess that HTML ended up in

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The HTML Tidy library is able to fix some malformed XML files  Running your feeds through that before passing them on to the parser may help

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Your other options include    SimplePie Last RSS PHP Universal Feed Parser

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I use SimplePie to parse a Google Reader feed and it works pretty well and has a decent feature set   Of course  I haven t tested it with non-well-formed RSS   Atom feeds so I don t know how it copes with those  I m assuming Google s are fairly standards compliant

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I ve always used the SimpleXML functions built in to PHP to parse XML documents  It s one of the few generic parsers out there that has an intuitive structure to it  which makes it extremely easy to build a meaningful class for something specific like an RSS feed  Additionally  it will detect XML warnings and errors  and upon finding any you could simply run the source through something like HTML Tidy  as ceejayoz mentioned  to clean it up and attempt it again   Consider this very rough  simple class using SimpleXML   class BlogPost       var  date      var  ts      var  link       var  title      var  text     class BlogFeed       var  posts   array         function   construct  file or url                 file or url    this- gt resolveFile  file or url           if     x   simplexml load file  file or url                return           foreach   x- gt channel- gt item as  item                         post   new BlogPost                 post- gt date     string   item- gt pubDate               post- gt ts      strtotime  item- gt pubDate                post- gt link     string   item- gt link               post- gt title    string   item- gt title               post- gt text     string   item- gt description                  Create summary as a shortened body and remove images                  extraneous line breaks  etc               post- gt summary    this- gt summarizeText  post- gt text                 this- gt posts      post                       private function resolveFile  file or url            if   preg match    https       file or url                feed uri     SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT      shared xml     file or url          else              feed uri    file or url           return  feed uri             private function summarizeText  summary             summary   strip tags  summary               Truncate summary line to 100 characters          max len   100          if  strlen  summary   gt   max len               summary   substr  summary  0   max len                    return  summary

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If feed isn t well-formed XML  you re supposed to reject it  no exceptions  You re entitled to call feed creator a bozo    Otherwise you re paving way to mess that HTML ended up in

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I use SimplePie to parse a Google Reader feed and it works pretty well and has a decent feature set   Of course  I haven t tested it with non-well-formed RSS   Atom feeds so I don t know how it copes with those  I m assuming Google s are fairly standards compliant

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The HTML Tidy library is able to fix some malformed XML files  Running your feeds through that before passing them on to the parser may help

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I ve always used the SimpleXML functions built in to PHP to parse XML documents  It s one of the few generic parsers out there that has an intuitive structure to it  which makes it extremely easy to build a meaningful class for something specific like an RSS feed  Additionally  it will detect XML warnings and errors  and upon finding any you could simply run the source through something like HTML Tidy  as ceejayoz mentioned  to clean it up and attempt it again   Consider this very rough  simple class using SimpleXML   class BlogPost       var  date      var  ts      var  link       var  title      var  text     class BlogFeed       var  posts   array         function   construct  file or url                 file or url    this- gt resolveFile  file or url           if     x   simplexml load file  file or url                return           foreach   x- gt channel- gt item as  item                         post   new BlogPost                 post- gt date     string   item- gt pubDate               post- gt ts      strtotime  item- gt pubDate                post- gt link     string   item- gt link               post- gt title    string   item- gt title               post- gt text     string   item- gt description                  Create summary as a shortened body and remove images                  extraneous line breaks  etc               post- gt summary    this- gt summarizeText  post- gt text                 this- gt posts      post                       private function resolveFile  file or url            if   preg match    https       file or url                feed uri     SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT      shared xml     file or url          else              feed uri    file or url           return  feed uri             private function summarizeText  summary             summary   strip tags  summary               Truncate summary line to 100 characters          max len   100          if  strlen  summary   gt   max len               summary   substr  summary  0   max len                    return  summary

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Your other options include    SimplePie Last RSS PHP Universal Feed Parser

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I ve always used the SimpleXML functions built in to PHP to parse XML documents  It s one of the few generic parsers out there that has an intuitive structure to it  which makes it extremely easy to build a meaningful class for something specific like an RSS feed  Additionally  it will detect XML warnings and errors  and upon finding any you could simply run the source through something like HTML Tidy  as ceejayoz mentioned  to clean it up and attempt it again   Consider this very rough  simple class using SimpleXML   class BlogPost       var  date      var  ts      var  link       var  title      var  text     class BlogFeed       var  posts   array         function   construct  file or url                 file or url    this- gt resolveFile  file or url           if     x   simplexml load file  file or url                return           foreach   x- gt channel- gt item as  item                         post   new BlogPost                 post- gt date     string   item- gt pubDate               post- gt ts      strtotime  item- gt pubDate                post- gt link     string   item- gt link               post- gt title    string   item- gt title               post- gt text     string   item- gt description                  Create summary as a shortened body and remove images                  extraneous line breaks  etc               post- gt summary    this- gt summarizeText  post- gt text                 this- gt posts      post                       private function resolveFile  file or url            if   preg match    https       file or url                feed uri     SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT      shared xml     file or url          else              feed uri    file or url           return  feed uri             private function summarizeText  summary             summary   strip tags  summary               Truncate summary line to 100 characters          max len   100          if  strlen  summary   gt   max len               summary   substr  summary  0   max len                    return  summary

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The HTML Tidy library is able to fix some malformed XML files  Running your feeds through that before passing them on to the parser may help

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If feed isn t well-formed XML  you re supposed to reject it  no exceptions  You re entitled to call feed creator a bozo    Otherwise you re paving way to mess that HTML ended up in

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I would like introduce simple script to parse RSS     i   0     counter  url    http   www banki ru xml news rss      url to parse  rss   simplexml load file  url      XML parser     RSS items loop  print   lt h2 gt  lt img style  vertical-align  middle   src     rss- gt channel- gt image- gt url      gt     rss- gt channel- gt title   lt  h2 gt       channel title   img with src  foreach  rss- gt channel- gt item as  item    if   i  lt  10       parse only 10 items     print   lt a href     item- gt link    gt    item- gt title   lt  a gt  lt br   gt        i

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I would like introduce simple script to parse RSS     i   0     counter  url    http   www banki ru xml news rss      url to parse  rss   simplexml load file  url      XML parser     RSS items loop  print   lt h2 gt  lt img style  vertical-align  middle   src     rss- gt channel- gt image- gt url      gt     rss- gt channel- gt title   lt  h2 gt       channel title   img with src  foreach  rss- gt channel- gt item as  item    if   i  lt  10       parse only 10 items     print   lt a href     item- gt link    gt    item- gt title   lt  a gt  lt br   gt        i

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Your other options include    SimplePie Last RSS PHP Universal Feed Parser

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