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Jan 17.2006

I need to write a PHP script that when run reads in an XML RSS feed like this: [url]http://www.usatoday.com/repurposing/OffbeatRss.xml[/url] and writes out just the text to a simple text file.

I’m pretty green at PHP, any tips on how to start or snippets would be greatly appreciated!

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@ShrineDesignsJan 17.2006 — your example uses xml and xsl
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@TrajectoauthorJan 17.2006 — How about something like this:

http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/world_rss20.xml

I need to read everything in as a string and parse out everything between the "< >" then write out a text file.
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@HuevoosJan 17.2006 — I don't quite understand what you want, but look at this link, if this is what you'r looking for I can post the messy source code

http://www.esbasura.com/rss.php?rss=abcnews

(there is a little prob with the links with <!CDATA but is easy to get through)
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@TrajectoauthorJan 17.2006 — It would just be a dump of the contents as a text file. So it wouldn't even be an HTML page, just a "news.txt" file.
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@HuevoosJan 17.2006 — well the code for that is
[code=php]
 $ch = curl_init("http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/world_rss20.xml");
$fp = fopen("escroto.txt", "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
[/code]

assuming you have the curl library
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@TrajectoauthorJan 17.2006 — That looks like what I want! I need to remove the "< >" brackets and everything between them though.

Is this where you get curl at?: http://curl.haxx.se/
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@Markbad311Jan 17.2006 — can someone define the Curl Library I am a newbie and trying tio pick up on anything my book hasn't taught me.
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@HuevoosJan 17.2006 — Yep that's where you get the curl library

I don't know if strip_tags() will work with xml Why don't you give it a try.

Markbad: http://php.net/curl
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