RSS Parser Class - Basic

feedParse.class.php

<?php

class feedParse {
	
	private $feed;
	private $truncate;
	private $feedData;

	public function __construct($feed, $truncate) {

		$this->feed = $feed;
		$this->truncate = $truncate;

	}

	public function setHeader() {
		header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
	}

	private function loadFeed() {

		$this->feedData = simplexml_load_file($this->feed);
	}

	public function parseFeed() {

		$this->loadFeed();


		$objArray = array();
		
   		foreach($this->feedData->channel->item as $item) {
			
			$itemArray = array();
    
        	$itemArray['title'] = $item->title;
        	$itemArray['author'] = $item->author;
        	$links = $item->children('http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0');
        	$itemArray['link'] = $links->origLink;
        	$itemArray['raw_date'] = $item->pubDate;
        	$itemArray['pub_date'] = str_replace('+0000', '', $item->pubDate);
			$desc = $item->description;
		
			if($this->truncate > 0) {
				if(strlen($desc) > $this->truncate) {
					$desc = substr($desc, 0, $this->truncate).'...';
				}
			}
			
			$itemArray['description'] = $desc;
			
			array_push($objArray, $itemArray);
		}
		
		return $objArray;
	}
}


//Usage

require_once('feedParse.class.php');

$feedUrl = '...';
$truncate = 50;

$feed = new feedParse($feedUrl, $truncate);

$feed = $feed->parseFeed();
//parseFeed returns array of post data from RSS feed


?>

feedParse.usage.php

include 'feedParse.class.php';

$parser = new feedParse();
$opts = array(); 

//Set the feed path as global var
$opts['feed'] = 'URL TO FEED'; 

//set the truncate length as global var
$opts['truncate'] = 350; 

//Pass options array to initialize the parser
$parser->init($opts);

//Load the RSS feed into the parser
$parser->loadFeed();

//Parse the feed into a nested array of objects
$feeddata = $parser->parseFeed();