RSS Feeds for PHP is a very small, lightweight, and easy-to-use library for consuming an RSS feed.
It requires PHP 7.1 or newer with cURL installed on the system, and is licensed under the MIT License.
Composer:
composer require joelwmale/rss-feed-php
Download RSS feed from URL:
use joelwmale\RSSFeedPHP;
$feed = RSSFeedPHP::load($url);Elements are returned as SimpleXMLElement objects, with the outter most object being an std::class.
echo 'Title: ', $feed->title;
echo 'Description: ', $feed->description;
echo 'Link: ', $feed->link;
foreach ($feed->item as $item) {
echo 'Title: ', $item->title;
echo 'Link: ', $item->link;
echo 'Date: ', $item->date;
echo 'Description ', $item->description;
echo 'HTML encoded content: ', $item->{'content:encoded'};
}A helper class is available if you wish to convert it to an array instead:
use joelwmale\RSSFeedPHP;
$feed = RSSFeedPHP::load($url);
$feed->toArray();Caching is available by adding the following:
use joelwmale\RSSFeedPHP;
RSSFeedPHP::$cacheDir = __DIR__ . '/tmp';
RSSFeedPHP::$cacheExpire = '5 hours';Tests are run via phpunit:
phpunit