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Create a sample SimplePie-enabled page

Example: Nothing Fancy

This is a very basic page with valid XHTML 1.1 syntax. This is likely what a bare-minimum page would look like.

<?php
 
// Make sure SimplePie is included. You may need to change this to match the location of autoloader.php
// For 1.0-1.2:
 
#require_once('../simplepie.inc');
// For 1.3+:
require_once('../autoloader.php');
 
// We'll process this feed with all of the default options.
$feed = new SimplePie();
 
// Set which feed to process.
 
// Run SimplePie.
$feed->init();
 
// This makes sure that the content is sent to the browser as text/html and the UTF-8 character set (since we didn't change it).
$feed->handle_content_type();
 
// Let's begin our XHTML webpage code.  The DOCTYPE is supposed to be the very first thing, so we'll keep it on the same line as the closing-PHP tag.
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
 
<html xmlns
<head>
	<title>Sample SimplePie Page</title>
	<meta
</head>
<body>
 
	<div class="header">
		<h1><a href="<?php echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a></h1>
		<p><?php echo $feed->get_description(); ?></p>
	</div>
 
	<?php
	/*
	Here, we'll loop through all of the items in the feed, and $item represents the current item in the loop.
	*/
	foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item):
	?>
 
		<div class="item">
			<h2><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<p><?php echo $item->get_description(); ?></p>
			<p><small>Posted on <?php echo $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?></small></p>
		</div>
 
	<?php endforeach; ?>
 
</body>
</html>

Example: Nothing Fancy, with CSS

This is the same thing as the last example, except we've added some CSS to make it look nicer.

<?php
 
// Make sure SimplePie is included. You may need to change this to match the location of autoloader.php
// For 1.0-1.2:
#require_once('../simplepie.inc');
// For 1.3+:
require_once('../autoloader.php');
 
// We'll process this feed with all of the default options.
$feed = new SimplePie();
 
// Set the feed to process.
$feed->set_feed_url
 
// Run SimplePie.
$feed->init();
 
// This makes sure that the content is sent to the browser as text/html and the UTF-8 character set (since we didn't change it).
$feed->handle_content_type();
 
// Let's begin our XHTML webpage code.  The DOCTYPE is supposed to be the very first thing, so we'll keep it on the same line as the closing-PHP tag.
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
 
 
<html xmlns="
<head>
	<title>Sample SimplePie Page</title>
 
 
	<style type="text/css">
	body {
		font:12px/1.4em Verdana, sans-serif;
		color:#333;
		background-color:#fff;
		width:700px;
		margin:50px auto;
		padding:0;
	}
 
	a {
		color:#326EA1;
		text-decoration:underline;
		padding:0 1px;
	}
 
	a:hover {
		background-color:#333;
		color:#fff;
		text-decoration:none;
	}
 
	div.header {
		border-bottom:1px solid #999;
	}
 
	div.item {
		padding:5px 0;
		border-bottom:1px solid #999;
	}
	</style>
 
</head>
<body>
 
	<div class="header">
		<h1><a href="<?php echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a></h1>
		<p><?php echo $feed->get_description(); ?></p>
	</div>
 
	<?php
	/*
	Here, we'll loop through all of the items in the feed, and $item represents the current item in the loop.
	*/
	foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item):
	?>
 
		<div class="item">
			<h2><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<p><?php echo $item->get_description(); ?></p>
			<p><small>Posted on <?php echo $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?></small></p>
		</div>
 
	<?php endforeach; ?>
 
</body>
</html>

setup/sample_page.txt · Last modified: 2013/08/11 04:57 (external edit)