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Posted by Noodle on 09/28/16 11:53
See if this works:
1. Use $rss['items'][$i]['description'] to return the contents of the
description node (including html markup) as a string.
2. Use the 'strip_tags' function to remove unwanted HTML from the
returned string.
See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php for more info.
Jason wrote:
> First things first, let me say that I couldn't decide whether to post
> this to the PHP ng, or to an XML ng. I know from experience that you
> guys know what you're talking about, though, and all of the questions
> mean "how to do this in PHP," so I hope I picked the right one ;-)
>
> For about a year, I've been importing Yahoo News headlines into my site
> via their RSS feed. But I would much rather import Google News
> headlines because I can make them specific to my location. The problem
> is that their RSS feed includes HTML, and the script I use can't figure
> it out.
>
> Here's an example tag from their most recent feed:
>
> <description><br><table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2
> cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top><a
> href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.raleighchronicle.com/2006072105.html&cid=1108150860&ei=hUzBRO_JMpe2aInH4PsB">Truck
> Driver Wins $100,000 In Lottery; <b>NC</b> Powerball
> Winners</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Raleigh
> Chronicle, NC -</font> <nobr>2 hours
> ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>REIDSVILLE -- According to the
> <b>NC</b> Lottery Commission, when Dennis Mebane collected his prize
> this week from a winning $100,000 instant scratch-off ticket, he
> <b>...</b> </font><br></table></description>
>
>
> The XML tag is <description>, but the script I use to parse it
> (rss2array, a cookie-cutter script that I downloaded) can't
> differentiate between <description> and <table>. Usually, I would call
> <description> by using the variable $rss['items'][$i]['description']
> (where $i is the index counter), but with this output I would have to
> do something like
> $rss['items'][$i]['description']['table'><'tr'><'td'><'b><'font'>...
>
> So I guess I really have 2 questions:
>
> 1. Is there a way to strip HTML completely out of the tag? Or better
> yet, to make rss2array read the HTML as actual HTML instead of XML
> tags?
>
> 2. If not, is there a better way to read the XML than through the use
> of rss2array? I'm a fairly experienced coder, but don't really use XML
> often enough to have a good grasp of the logic.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jason
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