Rss feed with PHP

2
votes

Hi can Anyone tell me how to process this rss feed in php

http://www.ft.com/rss/companies/travel-leisure

when i am executing the below lines

$rss = new DOMDocument(); $rss->load('http://www.ft.com/rss/companies/travel-leisure');

it is giving an error

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: DOMDocument::load(): Opening and ending tag mismatch: link line 8 and head in http://www.ft.com/rss/companies/travel-leisure, line: 11

Thanks

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phpxmlxml-parsingrss
That error message doesn't appear to match that document. It looks more like you are trying to parse some HTML as RSS … and yet I can reproduce it. - Quentin
You need to set a UserAgent string for PHP. The request requires one otherwise it gives 403 error page which is what you are hitting. - cryptic ツ

2 Answers

2
votes

If you request http://www.ft.com/rss/companies/travel-leisure without a User-Agent HTTP request header, you can get an error message back (under a 200 OK status).

This is a bug in FT's website.

As a work around, I suggest using cURL to fetch the data, and then feed a string into DOMDocument.

0
votes

Why not use a dedicated library like SimplePie to process your RSS feed ?

$feed = new SimplePie('http://www.ft.com/rss/companies/travel-leisure');
$feed->init();
$feed->handle_content_type();

foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item) {
    $permalink = $item->get_permalink();
    $title = $item->get_title();

    // Do what you want...
}

I have not tested this code, it's just to show you an example of use. Here the documentation and an example for more explanations.