Posted by junkmate on 08/15/07 15:23

I get an old set of items... the latest items are not included...
Now I am thinking my cUrl function maybe grabbing cached versions of
the xml file? is that possible and if so, can it be switched off?



On Aug 15, 4:13 pm, Rik <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:57:21 +0200, junkmate <junkm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have made an RSS reader and am testing on the BBC website, and I use
> > this code to grab the contents of the XML file, however when I look at
> > the contents grabbed by my function, and the HTML source of the bbc
> > website XML, they are different... how is that even possible?
>
> > Anyone have an XML parser that they could test this on please? Heres a
> > sample link and my code:
> >http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/football/rss.xml
>
> > $rss_name = "filename.xml";
>
> > $ch = curl_init($feed);
> > $fp = fopen($rss_name, "w");
>
> > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
> > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
>
> > curl_exec($ch);
> > curl_close($ch);
> > fclose($fp);
>
> Viewing the feed source & the file from CURL, the only difference I see is
> (understandably) <lastBuildDate />. What do you see and what do you expect?
>
> --
> Rik Wasmus

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