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Create RSS Feed From A PHP Page on a Site I Don't Own - Is This Possible?

by Rachel Incoll
3 replies
Hi guys,

I'm trying to create an RSS feed of ads from several classified ads sites (that I don't own) that don't currently have an RSS feed on them.

Update: They're not actually all PHP, some are HTML, but so far I haven't had any success with any of the HTML to RSS converters.

Any other ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated !

Cheers

Rach
#create #feed #page #php #rss #site
  • Profile picture of the author Jim Westergren
    I am not really sure of the best method but my guess is to parse the URLs with for example CURL and with some regex extract the ads, then input them into a db with a timestamp and then have a script which outputs XML to form a RSS based on the content from your database. Beware that you probably need permission before you can scrape sites and display their content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Evan-M
    are the sites running on wordpress?

    if so

    <?php
    include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');
    wp_rss('http://feedurl.com', 5);
    ?>

    5 is the number of items to display ( you may need to adjust /rss.php to the path relative to where you are running it.


    if not your looking at something more like this

    <?php

    $doc = new DOMDocument();
    $doc->load('http://url.com/feed.xml');
    $arrFeeds = array();
    foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
    $itemRSS = array (
    'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
    'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue,
    'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue,
    'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue
    );
    array_push($arrFeeds, $itemRSS);
    }

    ?>

    then display it with the $arrFeeds array
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  • Profile picture of the author phpdev
    You have to use CURL for fetching HTML and then use regular expression to extract contents you want.
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