4good json feed

gistfile1.txt

  <?php
//include parsedown.php, to format the descriptions parsedown markup
include '../plugins/parsedown.php';

// header needed for https workaround
$opts = array('http'=>array('header' => "User-Agent:MyAgent/1.0\r\n"));
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$content = file_get_contents('https://4good.org/library-feed/Your_Feed_Here/latest.json',false,$context);

// function to remove the {by} in the description
function delete_all_between($beginning, $end, $description) {
  $beginningPos = strpos($description, $beginning);
  $endPos = strpos($description, $end);
  if (!$beginningPos || !$endPos) {
    return $description;
  }

  $textToDelete = substr($description, $beginningPos, ($endPos + strlen($end)) - $beginningPos);
  return str_replace($textToDelete, '', $description);
}

//Now decode and print
$json = json_decode($content, true);
foreach($json['results'] as $item) {
// define some vars
$Parsedown = new Parsedown();
$description = $item['description'];
// remove the weird {by}
$description = delete_all_between('{', '}', $description);
   
    // If there is an image, lets show it
    if ($item['image_thumb_url']){
	    echo "<a href='" . $item['url'] . "'><img class='FeedImage' src='https://4good.org" . $item['image_thumb_url'] . "'></a>";
	}
	//title, linked to content
    echo "<h2><a href='" . $item['url'] . "'>" . $item['title'] . "</a></h2>";
    //Author info and link
    echo "<p class='meta'><a href='" . $item['owner_url'] . "'>" . $item['owner_name'] . "</a></p>";
    //show the description
    echo $Parsedown->text($description);
    
   }
    ?>

uses Parsedown (https://github.com/erusev/parsedown)