fopen - cURL help needed for new RSS cURL Newsfeed

steelwidow · February 15th, 2008, 2:01 PM

Hi there. I've been using an rss script for a long time to import msn news to a website, but now I get this when using it: (according to surpass the fopen function has been disabled)

Quote:

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/USERNAME/public_html/newsfeed/inc2/id_rss.inc on line 65

Warning: fopen(Live Search News: pharmaceutical) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/USERNAME/public_html/newsfeed/inc2/id_rss.inc on line 65
could not open XML input

Here's the RSS script:

PHP Code:


			


<?php



/*

Created by SW Designs

http://www.swdesigns.biz

*/



set_time_limit(0);



$file = "http://search.msn.com/news/results.aspx?q=pharmaceutical&form=QBNR&format=rss&count=2";



$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 target=blank 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>");

    }

}



?>

I asked Surpass why it wasn't working and they said because they disabled the f_open and I should use cURL for security reasons. Can anyone tell me what lines to change in this script to get it to work?

I think it's actually this area...

PHP Code:


			
$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");

Also within this little script I think we need to declare the path to cURL?????

Any help would be appreciated. Hey if we can get this to work this is a nice little script to share with others so they can easilly get RSS feeds to work on their sites as well.

If you know of another script that would work in it's place, please advise.

Thanks in advance for your help.

**Mark** · February 15th, 2008, 2:11 PM

Replace this

PHP Code:


			
$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)));

    }

}

with this

PHP Code:


			
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");

xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");



$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $file);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$xmldata = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);



$xmldata = split("\n",$xmldata);



foreach ($xmldata as $data) {

    if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data)) {

        die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",

                    xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),

                    xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));

    }

}

I *think* that should work, but i'm not totally sure because I haven't done too much php+xml

steelwidow · February 16th, 2008, 1:25 PM

Thank you so much! You are the master of cURL! (In my book anyhow.)

The newsfeed works.

Attached is the entire script for anyone that would like to use it. Mark I've thanked you in the read me file.

February 15th, 2008, 2:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mark Surpass Developer On a golden path... Joined in Jan 2004 Lives in Florida Hosted on decc.surpasshosting.com 359 posts Gave thanks: 7 Thanked 58 times Blog Entries: 1	Replace this PHP Code: $xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); xml_set_element_handler($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))); } } with this PHP Code: $xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement"); xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData"); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $file); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $xmldata = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); $xmldata = split("\n",$xmldata); foreach ($xmldata as $data) { if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data)) { die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser))); } } I think that should work, but i'm not totally sure because I haven't done too much php+xml __________________ Mark Surpass Hosting Developer sɹnoʎ uɐɥʇ ɹǝʇʇǝq sı bıs ʎɯ

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