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jyan

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php + rss

May 25th, 2007

Hiya!

I'm trying to include my blog- hosted at blogger.com - to my website. The blog is in an rss-feed. Blogger includes the tags that I use in the blog as they are, <a>, <br/> and <img> for example. When I try to read the blogs, it outputs the title and the author correctly, but the description that contains those tags doesn't show as it should.

Here's the php



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

 

<head>

<title>Dirtybird Rexx v2</title>

</head>

 <body>

<div id="container">

    <div id="blue">

        <p>Latest blogs:<br />

        <?php

        if(!($xmlparser = xml_parser_create())){

               die("Cannot create parser");

           }

        $postcount = 0;

        $current = "";

           function start_tag($parser, $name, $attribs){

               global $current;

               $current = $name;

            global $postcount;

            global $postdata;

        }

          function end_tag($parser, $name){

            global $postcount;

            if($name=="ITEM"){

                $postcount ++;

            }

            global $postdata;

          }

          function tag_contents($parser, $data){

              global $current;

            global $postcount;

            global $postdata;

            $data = str_replace("ä", "&auml;", $data);

            $data = str_replace("Ä", "&Auml;", $data);

            $data = str_replace("ö", "&ouml;", $data);

            $data = str_replace("Ö", "&Ouml;", $data);

             if($current == "TITLE"){

                $postdata[$postcount]["title"] = $data;

            }

            if($current == "AUTHOR"){

                $postdata[$postcount]["author"] = $data;

            }

            if($current == "DESCRIPTION"){

                $postdata[$postcount]["description"] = $data;

            }

         }  

        xml_set_element_handler($xmlparser, "start_tag", "end_tag");

        xml_set_character_data_handler($xmlparser, "tag_contents");

        $filename = "http://dirtybirdrexx.blogspot.com/rss.xml";

           if (!($fp = fopen($filename, "r"))){

            die("cannot open ".$filename);

        }

        while ($data = fread($fp, 8192)){

            $data = eregi_replace(">"."[[:space:]]+"."< ",">< ",$data);

               if (!xml_parse($xmlparser, $data, feof($fp))) {

                   $reason = xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xmlparser));

                   $reason .= xml_get_current_line_number($xmlparser);

                   die($reason);

               }

           }

           xml_parser_free($xmlparser);

        for ($i=0;$i<$postcount; $i++){

            echo "<br /><strong>".$postdata[$i]["title"]."</strong> (by ".($postdata[$i]["author"]).")";

        }

        ?>

        </p>        

    </div>

    <div id="grey">

        <h2>all blogs</h2>

        <?php

        for ($i=0;$i<$postcount; $i++){

            echo "<h2>".$postdata[$i]["title"]."</strong> (by ".($postdata[$i]["author"]).")</h2>";

            echo "<p>".$postdata[$i]["description"]."</p>";

        }

        ?>

    </div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

... and xml can be found at http://dirtybirdrexx.blogspot.com/rss.xml

This code outputs this:

Latest blogs:

About Subliminal EP (by the Slowdowns)
The Beginning (by Dirtybird Rexx)

all blogs

About Subliminal EP (by the Slowdowns)
- the Slowdowns

The Beginning (by Dirtybird Rexx)
- Jyri of DBR

When it should output a lot more text before those signatures (the Slowdowns and Jyri of DBR). I think it has something to do with the <br /> -tags just before the signatures. So I need to find the solution how to stop the description from breaking. I've tried the str_replace function before putting $data to the $postdata -array, but it didn't work.

Help, anyone?

- Jyri