4 Simple PHP RSS Parser

Sometimes you need to parse RSS from other website and integrate to your project. Well you can create your own library to parse that RSS, but before wasting your development time, please take a look these great libraries for parsing RSS.

SimplePie

simplepie

SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use PHP class to parse RSS.

Features :

  • Single file, no install.
  • Cache mechanism.
  • Has plugin for such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and others.

Usage Example

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<?php
    require 'simplepie/simplepie.inc'; 
    $feed = new SimplePie('http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Komunitasweb');
?>
 
<h1><?php print $feed->get_title(); ?></h1>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($feed->get_items(0, 10) as $item): ?>
    <li>
        <a href="<?= $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?= $item->get_title(); ?></a>
    </li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

MagpieRSS

Features

  • Easy to Use.
  • Parses RSS 0.9 – RSS 1.0
  • Integrated Object Cache.
  • HTTP Conditional GETs.
  • Configurable.
  • Modular.
  • Secure – supports HTTP authentication, and SSL.
  • Bandwidth friendly – supports transparent GZIP encoding to reduce bandwidth usage.
  • Does not use fopen(), work even if allow_url_fopen is disabled.

Usage Example

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<?php
    require('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');
    $rss = fetch_rss('http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Komunitasweb');        
?> 
 
<h1>KomunitasWeb</h1>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($rss->items as $item): ?>
    <li>
        <a href="<?= $item['link']; ?>"><?= $item['title']; ?></a>
    </li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

RSS_PHP

RSS_PHP is a RSS Parser and XML Parser for PHP 5+.

Usage Example

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<?php
    require 'rss_php/rss_php.php';
    $rss = new rss_php;
    $rss->load('http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Komunitasweb');
    $items = $rss->getItems();        
?> 
 
<h1>KomunitasWeb</h1>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($items as $item): ?>
    <li>
        <a href="<?= $item['link']; ?>"><?= $item['title']; ?></a>
    </li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

Last RSS

Last RSS claim to be simple yet powerful PHP RSS parser.

Usage Example

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<?php
    require('lastRSS/lastRSS.php');	
    $rss = new lastRSS;
    $feed = $rss->get('http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Komunitasweb');
?> 
 
<h1><?= $feed['title'] ?></h1>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($feed['items'] as $item): ?>
    <li>
        <a href="<?= $item['link']; ?>"><?= $item['title']; ?></a>
    </li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

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