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When parsing RSS feed, wrong date is displayed.

Answer 1

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I've said it before, so I'll say it again: Use Magpie RSS to parse your RSS feeds. It takes care of all this stuff for you, and will be much more reliable.

Chris Arguin 2010-07-04 00:18:05

Super duper. Thanks a lot!

Sam Nabi 2010-07-04 03:54:47

Answer 2

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Magpie RSS works great. Here's the code I used to replace what was in my original question:

<?php

define('MAGPIE_INPUT_ENCODING', 'UTF-8');
define('MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING', 'UTF-8');

//Tell it to use the fetch script to grab the RSS feed
require_once('magpie/rss_fetch.inc');

//Now it knows how to fetch RSS, tell it which one to fetch
$rss = fetch_rss('http://samnabi.posterous.com/rss.xml');

//In this case, we only want to display the first 3 items
$items = array_slice($rss->items,0,3);

//Now we tell Magpie how to format our output
foreach ($items as $item) {
    $title = $item['title'];
    $date = date('d M Y', strtotime($item['pubdate']));
    $link = $item['link'];
    $description = $item['description'];       

    //And now we want to put it all together.
    echo "<p>$date</p><h2>$title</h2><p>$description</p>";
}

?>

Sam Nabi 2010-07-04 03:53:27

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