Fresh TOPICAL Content for Your site.

[namestrands]

Need to fill up some space on your site with relative content.. ?

<?php

$keyword = urlencode("YOUR KEYWORDS");

set_time_limit(0);

$file = "http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-22,GGLG:en&q=$keyword&output=rss";

$rss_channel = array();
$currently_writing = "";
$main = "";
$item_counter = 0;

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
   	global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main;
   	switch($name) {
   		case "RSS":
   		case "RDF:RDF":
   		case "ITEMS":
   			$currently_writing = "";
   			break;
   		case "CHANNEL":
   			$main = "CHANNEL";
   			break;
   		case "IMAGE":
   			$main = "IMAGE";
   			$rss_channel["IMAGE"] = array();
   			break;
   		case "ITEM":
   			$main = "ITEMS";
   			break;
   		default:
   			$currently_writing = $name;
   			break;
   	}
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
   	global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $item_counter;
   	$currently_writing = "";
   	if ($name == "ITEM") {
   		$item_counter++;
   	}
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
	global $rss_channel, $currently_writing, $main, $item_counter;
	if ($currently_writing != "") {
		switch($main) {
			case "CHANNEL":
				if (isset($rss_channel[$currently_writing])) {
					$rss_channel[$currently_writing] .= $data;
				} else {
					$rss_channel[$currently_writing] = $data;
				}
				break;
			case "IMAGE":
				if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing])) {
					$rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing] .= $data;
				} else {
					$rss_channel[$main][$currently_writing] = $data;
				}
				break;
			case "ITEMS":
				if (isset($rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing])) {
					$rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] .= $data;
				} else {
					$rss_channel[$main][$item_counter][$currently_writing] = $data;
				}
				break;
		}
	}
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
	die("could not open XML input");
}

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
	if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
		die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
					xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
					xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
	}
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

// output HTML
// print ("<div class=\"channelname\">" . $rss_channel["TITLE"] . "</div>"); 

if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"])) {
	if (count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]) > 0) {
		for($i = 0;$i < count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]);$i++) {
			if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"])) {
			print ("\n<div class=\"itemtitle\"><a href=\"" . "go.php?url=" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"] . "\">" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"] . "</a></div>");
			} else {
			print ("\n<div class=\"itemtitle\">" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"] . "</div>");
			}
			 print ("<div class=\"itemdescription\">" . $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["DESCRIPTION"] . "</div><br />"); 		}
	} else {
		print ("<b>There are no articles in this feed.</b>");
	}
}

?>

 

[jdk]

Very nice. Thank you.

 

[NostraDomainus]

As a complete PHP newbie - I was wondering if this would work just As Is Cut & Pasted into an HTML Page?

I tried but only got a small piece of code to display.

Any tips? Thanks!

PS :Great Idea by the Way.

 

[namestrands]

You would have to cut and paste it into a PHP page

for example: index.php

 

[elearningtoys]

This was JUST what I was looking for! Thank you so much!

 

[dudeinva]

I'm a php noice as well. I'd like to see how it looks. Can you point us to a site that's using it?

 

[fab]

Very nice work. Here is an example - http://www.convertcd.com/convertcd.php

There is one problem I see. The links are attached to the domain name, i.e, the following
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=....com/news/13738&cid=0&ei=Q8DNRNXMILKQHPTbhOMJ
shows -
http://www.convertcd.com/go.php?url....com/news/13738&cid=0&ei=Q8DNRNXMILKQHPTbhOMJ

 

[cinran]

Just add a file named go.php in the same directory and include the following code in the go.php file:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location:".$HTTP_GET_VARS['url']."");
exit;
?>


----------------------------------------
Example: http://www.lowintro.com/news.php

 

[fab]

Thanks Cinran, it's working fine now.

 

[cinran]

Cool, glad I could help out.

 

[namestrands]

you do not need the 301 redirect as this will cause you untold search ranking problems if you have several on the same page.

Simply create a new file called go.php and upload it to the root directory.

then add the folowing code.

<?
$links = $_GET['url'];
header("Location: $links");
exit();
?>

 

[diverge]

Woot! What a great script. I am going to use this one. Did you do this one yourself, or find it somewhere? Either way, great post!

 

[teamwork]

thanks for sharing!

 

[namestrands]

hope you can make use of it.

 

[SuccessClick]

hope you can make use of it.

Nice of you to post this. You deserve an award. I am currently testing this code and will update you on my results. thanks!

 

[fab]

You should read through this thread, especially Cinran's post -

Just add a file named go.php in the same directory and include the following code in the go.php file:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location:".$HTTP_GET_VARS['url']."");
exit;
?>

I have an example above as well.