SimplePHP

SimplePHP is a PHP class for retrieval and parsing of RSS feeds. This is a wrapper to that class making it easy to use in the CakePHP framwork. Much of this component is taken from the work of Scott Sansoni (http://cakeforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=53). This is mostly an update so the component works with the lastest version of SimplePie.

These instructions assume that you have a familiarity with working with the CakePHP framework.

Download SimplePie and unzip the contents. Move the simplepie.inc file to one of the vendors folders. Rename the file to simplepie.php. I like to put the file in the subfolder with the README.txt and LICENSE.txt for easy reference.

Download the SimplePHP component and unzip it to app/controllers/components.

Include the component in any controller that will need it.

In your Controller Class:

<?php
 
$items = $this->Simplepie->feed('http://feeds.feedburner.com/pseudocoder'); 
 
?>

In your View Template:

<?php
 
foreach($items as $item)
{
	echo $html->link($item->get_title(), $item->get_permalink()) . '<br />'; 
}
 
?>