girlscamru
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I am trying to parse data from an xml or rss file. It is a bit of a mess. People tell me that its meant to be easy but I am struggling alot.First I want to get the radio shows news to display on site. I got the rss feeds and api both from an external source and they update the xml content daily and I just need to get the file and save it on my server so I can read off it.Here is a sample of the rss.\[code\]<?xml version="1.0"?> <channel> <title>external source</title> <link>http://www.externalsource.com/</link> <description>external source</description> <language>en-us</language> <pubDate>Thu, Jun 3 2011 10:23:56 PDT</pubDate> <ttl>60</ttl> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <item> <title>08:00 pm</title> <link>http://www.externalsource.com</link> </item> <item> <title>- Stephen Ace show</title> <link>http://www.externalsource.com/stephen_ace</link> <description>Stephens show</description> </item> <item> <title>- Sarah Hardy show</title> <link>http://www.externalsource.com/sarah_hardy</link> <description> Sarah's first show in her new slot.</description> </item> <item> <title>- Radio 4 evening show</title> <link>http://www.externalsource.com/shows/id-453</link> <description>Bill Grady is supported by co-host Lenny Hillroy</description> </item> <item> <title>- Kiss music evening show will Sady</title> <link>http://www.externalsource.com/shows/id-112</link> <description>Sady presents the evening show here at Kiss.</description> </item> </channel>\[/code\]I save this file as tonight.xml and it updates evening 24 hours from a PHP script which uses fread().I want to show just the titles of the shows that are playing that evening, nothing else.
I am ok with MySQL but am really not getting this. I am very stuck.
Here is my php\[code\]<?php$thexml = simplexml_load_file("tonight.xml");echo $thexml->getName() . "<br />";foreach($thexml->children() as $child) { echo $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br />"; }\[/code\]When I test it it does not print the correct values.
I am ok with MySQL but am really not getting this. I am very stuck.
Here is my php\[code\]<?php$thexml = simplexml_load_file("tonight.xml");echo $thexml->getName() . "<br />";foreach($thexml->children() as $child) { echo $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br />"; }\[/code\]When I test it it does not print the correct values.