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July 13, 2013 00:43
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For getting the word of the day from dictionary.com and displaying it nice and pretty.
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<?php | |
// adapted from http://bavotasan.com/2010/display-rss-feed-with-php/ | |
$rss = new DOMDocument(); | |
$rss->load('http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss'); // calling dictionary.com | |
$feed = array(); | |
foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) { | |
$item = array ( | |
'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue, | |
'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue, | |
'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue | |
); | |
array_push($feed, $item); | |
} | |
$limit = 1; | |
if ($feed == null) echo "An error occurred when the robot tried to get the quote of the day."; | |
else | |
for ($x=0;$x<$limit;$x++) { | |
// title | |
$title = str_replace(' & ', ' & ', $feed[$x]['title']); | |
list($title) = explode(':', $title, 2); // remove colon | |
$title = ucfirst($title); // capitalize first character | |
// link | |
$link = $feed[$x]['link']; | |
// description | |
$description = $feed[$x]['desc']; | |
$description = strstr($description, ':'); // remove first word (title) | |
$description= ltrim($description,': '); // trim first character and whitespace | |
$description = ucfirst($description); // capitalize first letter | |
echo '<p>Word of the Day: <strong><a href="'.$link.'" target="_blank" title="Dictionary.com Word of the Day">'.$title.'</a></strong><br />'; | |
echo '<p>'.$description.'</p>'; | |
} |
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The URL for wotd.rss seems to be outdated now (last post is from 2 years ago). Any new feeds?