PHP Simple_XML with namespaces
Had to read in an external RSS file from T3 and needed to drill into the "content" node which had a namespace. Using traditional ways of echoing out this node was not working so searching the net found a nice simple solution.
Below is the code to loop thru the "items" node without the name namespace involved:
<?php
$url = "http://best-apps.t3.com/category/platforms/android/feed/";
//download the feed from t3 with fopen
$handle = fopen($url, "r");
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
//echo $contents;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($contents);
//print_r($xml);
echo "<ul>";
$i = 0;
foreach($xml->channel->item as $item)
{
$alt_bg = (fmod($i, 2)) ? "bg-alt-even" : "bg-alt-odd"; //alternative background colour thing
?>
<li class="<?php echo $alt_bg?>">
<a href="<?php echo $item->link?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $item->title?></a>
</li>
<?php
$i++;
}
echo "</ul>";
?>
Below code includes the way I drilled into the namespace for "content:encoded"
<?php
$url = "http://best-apps.t3.com/category/platforms/android/feed/";
//download the feed from t3 with fopen
$handle = fopen($url, "r");
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
//echo $contents;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($contents);
//print_r($xml);
echo "<ul>";
$i = 0;
foreach($xml->channel->item as $item)
{
$alt_bg = (fmod($i, 2)) ? "bg-alt-even" : "bg-alt-odd"; //alternative background colour thing
//Use that namespace from "content"
$namespaces = $item->getNameSpaces(true);
$content = $item->children($namespaces['content']);
echo $content->encoded;
?>
<li class="<?php echo $alt_bg?>">
<a href="<?php echo $item->link?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $item->title?></a>
</li>
<?php
$i++;
}
echo "</ul>";
?>
The code reference is just a mock up and will need cleaning up but gives you an idea at least.