Questions tagged [magpie]

Magpie is an RSS and Atom feed parser written in PHP.

Magpie is an RSS and Atom feed parser written in PHP.

More information at: magpierss.sourceforge.net

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Turning Magpie Cache off

Im using magpie to pull rss feeds from several websites. im going to run a cron job to do this so would like to disable caching. im using php ofcourse and was wondering how i can do this. Thx
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Pulling Images from rss/atom feeds using magpie rss

Im using php and magpie and would like a general way of detecting images in feed item. I know some websites place images within the enclosure tag, others like this images[rss] and some simply add it to description. Is there any one with a general…
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rss to sql using magpie and cron job

Basically, i want my site to aggregate a lot of rss feeds and store them in database during cron job. i use magpie to parse the rss into arrays...everything should seem straight forward although im worried about duplication issues when running the…
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RSS time format to human readable format

I'm using MagpieRSS to parse some Craigslist feeds. The problem is the publish dates for craigslist posts are in this format: 2010-02-25T18:09:38-06:00 How can I convert that to Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:09 PM using php?
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RSS feed captions

How can I read the captions of a RSS feed from a given website? I have to use either Magpie or PHP.
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Magpie removes angle brackets from RSS feed

I've found two WP installs on different servers, same WP version. Magpie returns different RSS content from same feed, one of the blogs returns the contents with angle brackets removed. The XML is retrieved exactly the same for both blogs, the…
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Wordpress not pulling Dircaster script on demand

I have a script which when running standalone as a php works fine. It's a simple output of an rss feed but the rss is generated on the fly by dircaster. When I turn this into a wordpress plugin, however, it fails to work every time. This is the…
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magpierss return garbage text from utf-8 xml after parsing

I have been using MagpieRSS to get feed from an xml file.XML file is in UTF-8 character encoding (language = 'ja,jp'). But after parsing the xml, Magpie returns garbage string not japanese characters. How do I tell Magpie to return UTF-8 format to…
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Need help extracting image src url from a pinterest rss feed

Basically I am trying to add a Pinterest feed widget to an ExpressionEngine site. I found this tutorial which was very helpful but the issue is that I can't use the Tag Stripping plugin that is referenced because the site I am helping out with uses…
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how to store rss in mysql with Magpie in php

I need to fetch rss feeds from 12 different websites. and i want only selected feeds will be display to user on main page. I am using Magpie RSS parser to display RSS feeds. But how i can store them in database. I used following code to fetch…
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Using PHP to display RSS feed attributes

I am attempting to display results from an RSS feed using PHP. I have successfully used magpie [magpierss.sourceforge.net] and rss_php [rssphp.net] However, both parsers I am having issues getting the attrbute values specifically…
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