Feed Helper

The Feed helper assist in the parsing of remote RSS feeds.

'parse' parses a RSS feed and returns the parsed feed as an array.

• [string] remote feed url, or local file path
• [int] maximum amount of items to parse – default = 0 (infinite)

$feed = "feed.xml";
print Kohana::debug(feed::parse($feed));

Use the code above on this RSS feed:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0">
<channel>
<item>
	<title>Some feed item</title>
	<link>http://www.example.com/article34</link>
	<description>This article is really cool!</description>
	<author>Aart-Jan Boor</author>
	<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:28:11 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
	<title>Some feed item2</title>
	<link>http://www.example.com/article546</link>
	<description>This article is really cool too!</description>
	<author>Aart-Jan Boor</author>
	<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:57:56 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
	<title>Some feed item3</title>
	<link>http://www.example.com/article4523</link>
	<description>This article is the best!</description>
	<author>Aart-Jan Boor</author>
	<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:39:42 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

It will result in HTML as:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [title] => Some feed item
            [link] => http://www.example.com/article34
            [description] => This article is really cool!
            [author] => Aart-Jan Boor
            [pubDate] => Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:28:11 GMT
        )
 
    [1] => Array
        (
            [title] => Some feed item2
            [link] => http://www.example.com/article546
            [description] => This article is really cool too!
            [author] => Aart-Jan Boor
            [pubDate] => Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:57:56 GMT
        )
 
    [2] => Array
        (
            [title] => Some feed item3
            [link] => http://www.example.com/article4523
            [description] => This article is the best!
            [author] => Aart-Jan Boor
            [pubDate] => Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:39:42 GMT
        )
 
)