Suppose you want to get news stories from CNN.com or other news site and put the live feed on your own website, what do you do?
Fortunately RSS (Really Simple Syndication) makes it easy to share content across the ether, and these 3 easy to use PHP RSS Parser Classes makes XML and RSS parsing easier for us.
So here they are:
Last RSS
Claims “Simple yet powerful PHP RSS parser”, to which I would say it really is easy to use, but I’m not sure if it is more powerful than SimplePie (below) which can handle domain internationalization.
SimplePie
SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the ‘simple’ back into ‘really simple syndication’. Flexible enough to suit beginners and veterans alike, SimplePie is focused on speed, ease of use, compatibility and standards compliance.
Magpie RSS
I haven’t bothered trying Magpie for the simple reason that their web page is very simple, (I judge a product by it’s website). So if any of you have tried, let me know how it fares with the other two!
