Eat THIS! with Magpie RSS

Magpie RSS is a PHP RSS aggregator script. It makes consuming a feed as easy as pie! (Pun intented!)

All you do is:

1. Upload the Magpie scripts to your site.
2. Create a page that will display your feeds.
3. Include the Magpie script in your page.
4. Enter the following code to display your feeds:

<h2><a href=”http://maxkaizen.com” title=”Max1m blog”>Max1m’s blog</a></h2>

        <p>

            <ul>

                <?php

                $rss = fetch_rss(’http://maxkaizen.com/feed/’);

               

                if (is_array($rss->items)) {

                    $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 3);

                   

                    foreach ( $items as $item ) {

                        echo “<li><a href=\”".$item['link'].”\” title=\”".$item['title'].”\”>”.$item['title'].”</a></li>”;       

                    }

                }

                ?>

            </ul>

        </p>

You create a RSS array by declaring it $rss = fetch_rss(’the_url’);

This goes to the URL and fetches the feed and load it into an array. You can then manipulate the array to get what you want from it. I sliced the array show only the latest 3 posts ($items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 3);)

Then you simply loop through the array of items or posts and format them for display.

Really, REALLY simple and easy to use!

I’ve made a hack on this blog. See the Eat THIS! and Eat THAT! links on top under the logo? Go to those pages to see the aggregated feeds. (Eat THIS is feeds aggregated from my friends blogs and Eat THAT is from some of my favorite sites.)

Download the example files by clicking here.

technorati tags:rss, magpierss, rssaggregator

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6 Comments to "Eat THIS! with Magpie RSS"

• RafiQ said: On 12/18/2006 at 12:23 pm

  Shot for adding me to your list. Haven’t met you yet dude, or have I? Are you going to be at the Geek Dinner?

• Stii said: On 12/18/2006 at 12:45 pm

  You have not yet… I wish I could’ve been there! Unfortunately, I would be mighty unpopular at home if I go down to Cape Town so close to Xmas!

• 煎蛋 » Del.icio.us 最炫的十个用法 said: On 05/25/2007 at 10:57 am

  [...] Firefox 地址栏里，这样你随时可以全域搜索关键字了； 使用这个叫 Magpie 的脚本将你的书签聚合到个人网站上（是不是比 Del.icio.us [...]

• 小末 » Blog Archive » Del.icio.us 最炫的十个用法 said: On 05/25/2007 at 12:25 pm

  [...] 放在你的 Firefox 地址栏里，可以全域搜索关键字了； 12、使用这个叫 Magpie 的脚本将你的书签聚合到个人网站上（是不是比 Del.icio.us [...]

• RedLog » » Del.icio.us 最炫的十个用法 said: On 05/27/2007 at 12:34 pm

  [...] 放在你的 Firefox 地址栏里，可以全域搜索关键字了； 12、使用这个叫 Magpie 的脚本将你的书签聚合到个人网站上（是不是比 Del.icio.us [...]

• sky’s blog said: On 09/07/2007 at 1:26 pm

  [...] 放在你的 Firefox 地址栏里，可以全域搜索关键字了； 12、使用这个叫 Magpie 的脚本将你的书签聚合到个人网站上（是不是比 Del.icio.us [...]

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