Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page

If you want to quote the latest articles from an RSS (XML based) news feed on your site, is it difficult? No - it can easily be programmed in PHP. I was exploring this yesterday and have the source code showing just how easy it is in our training resources.

Want to try it out? This link runs the script in our resource centre 'against' The Horse's Mouth

Truly, the answer "There's a function to do that" really does seem to apply to PHP coding!
(written 2005-08-12, updated 2008-05-17)

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