Posted by Captain Paralytic on 02/01/08 12:35

On 1 Feb, 09:08, SirFlibble <nospample...@garbagetodel.flibbled.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm not a programmer these days (been years since I have and since
> become a lawyer... don't hate me) but a friend asked for a favour and
> it's been a while since I cracked out even a basic piece of code so I
> said ok.
>
> Anyhow, this script needs to read an RSS feed at the following extremely
> long and annoying URL. From what I can work out )my friend didn't know
> either) it's a PHP script that publishes the data as an RSS feed. The
> URL is as follows.
>
> http://www.mylegalcareer.com.au/content.php/jobresults.html?form_sear...
> mployerid=&form_search_employer_label=&form_search_locality=&form_search_
> state=&form_search_employertype%5B%5D=&form_search_jobtype%5B%5D=&form_se
> arch_practice%5B%5D=&form_search_jobcategory%5B%5D=&form_submit_x=24&form
> _submit_y=11&form_submit=Submit&rss=1
>
> Now I've written a small script which essentially reads the output from
> that script (which I saved into a file for testing) and prints out the
> <title> and <link> elements as a new webpage. The ultimate goal is the
> actively feed off the RSS feed and present it in a nice HTML form in an
> iframe (which will be used on several websites).
>
> So my question (after my long winded explanation) is how do I access
> this data via it's URL? I can't seem to work it out.
>
> The code is as follows.
>
> <?php
> if(!$xml=simplexml_load_file('test.xml')){
> trigger_error('Error reading XML file',E_USER_ERROR);
> }
> for ($x = 0; $x<9; $x++) {
> echo '<a href=' . $xml->channel[0]->item[$x]->link . '>'.
> $xml->channel[0]->item[$x]->title . '</a><br>';
> }
> ?>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me... it's been a fun
> challenge to even get to this point.

I thought lawyers had to be very careful with their grammar when
writing legal documents so that they should not be misinterpreted?
("it's URL" should be "its URL")

Anyway, you can use CURL or you may (as long as the server is
configured to allow it - i.e. allow_url_fopen is enabled), be able to
just put the URL into an fopen() call.

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