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/**
* Facebook Page Feed Parser
*
* @using cURL
*/
function fb_parse_feed( $page_id, $no = 5 ) {
// URL to the Facebook page's RSS feed.
$rss_url = 'http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=' . $page_id . '&format=rss20';
$curl = curl_init();
// You need to query the feed as a browser.
$header[0] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
$header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $rss_url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, '');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$raw_xml = curl_exec($curl); // execute the curl command
curl_close($curl); // close the connection
$xml = simplexml_load_string( $raw_xml );
$out = '';
$i = 1;
foreach( $xml->channel->item as $item ){
$out .= '<div class="entry">';
$out .= '<h3 class="title"><a href="' . $item->link . '">' . $item->title . '</a></h3>';
$out .= '<div class="meta">' . $item->pubDate . ' by '. $item->author .'</div>';
$out .= '<div class="content">' . $item->description . '</div></div>';
if( $i == $no ) break;
$i++;
}
echo $out;
}
<?php
/**
* Facebook Page Feed Parser
*
* @using SimpleXML
*/
function fb_parse_feed( $page_id, $no = 5 ) {
// You need to query the feed as a browser.
ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9');
// URL to the Facebook page's RSS feed.
$rss_url = 'http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=' . $page_id . '&format=rss20';
$xml = simplexml_load_file( $rss_url );
$out = '';
$i = 1;
foreach( $xml->channel->item as $item ){
$out .= '<div class="entry">';
$out .= '<h3 class="title"><a href="' . $item->link . '">' . $item->title . '</a></h3>';
$out .= '<div class="meta">' . $item->pubDate . ' by '. $item->author .'</div>';
$out .= '<div class="content">' . $item->description . '</div></div>';
if( $i == $no ) break;
$i++;
}
echo $out;
}
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