(PHP ActiveX) Read RSS Feed

Sample code showing how to read an RSS feed and emit the contents.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Rss')
$rss = new COM("Chilkat.Rss");

// Download from the feed URL:
$success = $rss->DownloadRss('http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rss->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Get the 1st channel.
// rssChannel is a Chilkat.Rss
$rssChannel = $rss->GetChannel(0);
if ($rss->LastMethodSuccess == 0) {
    print 'No channel found in RSS feed.' . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Display the various pieces of information about the channel:
print 'Title: ' . $rssChannel->getString('title') . "\n";
print 'Link: ' . $rssChannel->getString('link') . "\n";
print 'Description: ' . $rssChannel->getString('description') . "\n";

// For each item in the channel, display the title, link,
// publish date, and categories assigned to the post.
$numItems = $rssChannel->NumItems;

for ($i = 0; $i <= $numItems - 1; $i++) {
    // rssItem is a Chilkat.Rss
    $rssItem = $rssChannel->GetItem($i);

    print '----' . "\n";
    print 'Title: ' . $rssItem->getString('title') . "\n";
    print 'Link: ' . $rssItem->getString('link') . "\n";
    print 'pubDate: ' . $rssItem->getString('pubDate') . "\n";

    $numCategories = $rssItem->GetCount('category');

    if ($numCategories > 0) {
        for ($j = 0; $j <= $numCategories - 1; $j++) {
            print '    category: ' . $rssItem->mGetString('category',$j) . "\n";
        }

    }

}


?>