SimpleXML RSS help

Question

I'm trying to use SimpleXML to read our News RSS feed but it's not outputting anything.

Here's my code:

<?php
$rss = simplexml_load_file('http://news.stanford.edu/rss/index.xml');
?>
<h1><?php echo $rss->title; ?></h1>
<ul>
<?php
foreach($rss->item as $e) {
    echo "<li><a href=\"".$e->link['href']."\">";
    echo $e->title;     
    echo "</a></li>\n";
}    
?>

Answer 1

Basically, the problem is that in the XML, everything is inside a channel tag. Also, your link doesn't want the ['href'] bit.

<?php
$rss = simplexml_load_file('http://news.stanford.edu/rss/index.xml');
?>
<h1><?php echo $rss->channel->title; ?></h1>
<ul>
<?php

foreach($rss->channel->item as $chan) {  
        echo "<li><a href=\"".$chan->link."\">";
        echo $chan->title;     
        echo "</a></li>\n";
}  
?>

Here is a link to the documentation for that function