Hi All,

Quick question, I want to add the most recent news story from a third party RSS feed to one of my templates. I am quite happpy to do this via SimpleXML, but I was wondering if SS has something builtin that might be more preferable to use?

Cheers,

Mo

I just grabbed code from the Blog module (RSSWidget.php).

Refactoring RSSWidget.php is probably a good solution. If you need more functionality, I'd probably use SimplePie (http://simplepie.org/) instead of parsing RAW XML using SimpleXML. It's a pretty neat php class for all your RSS/Atom Feed needs ;)

Quick question. Has anyone tried to pull in the Silverstripe blog (http://www.silverstripe.org/blog/rss/)?

I have tried several different methods, they all result in a file not found error, or something similar?

Anyone know why?

How are you doing it?

We pull the ss.org blog feed fine from http://www.silverstripe.com/blog/.

I got it working now, using recycled code from the blog module, as mentioned above:

function LatestSSNews() {
		$output = new DataObjectSet();
		
		include_once(Director::getAbsFile(SAPPHIRE_DIR . '/thirdparty/simplepie/SimplePie.php'));
		
		$t1 = microtime(true);
		$feed = new SimplePie('http://www.silverstripe.org/blog/rss', TEMP_FOLDER);
		$feed->init();
		if($items = $feed->get_items(0, 2)) {
			foreach($items as $item) {
				
				// Cast the Date
				$date = new Date('Date');
				$date->setValue($item->get_date());

				// Cast the Title
				$title = new Text('Title');
				$title->setValue($item->get_title());
				
				// Cast the description and strip
				$desc = new Text('Description');
				$desc->setValue(strip_tags($item->get_description()));

				$output->push(new ArrayData(array(
					'Title'			=> $title,
					'Date'			=> $date,
					'Link'			=> $item->get_link(),
					'Description'	=> $desc
				)));
			}
			return $output;
		}
	}

This works ok, I think the way I was trying to do it before was incorrect, I was trying to load it in using the RestfulService class, which didn't seem to work :s.

Mo