Extending SimplePie to Parse Unique RSS Feeds
A few days ago, as I prepared our Create a Slick Flickr Gallery with SimplePie tutorial, it occurred to me that we haven’t posted many articles that covered SimplePie . Considering how fantastic a library it is, I think it’s time to take a closer look. We’ll be looking at a more advanced feature that allows you to extend the built-in item class to allow for the parsing of complicated RSS feeds. Our Mission If your only desire is to import the feeds of a few blogs to display on your website, you shouldn’t have any trouble at all. In fact, the SimplePie.org website has a great intro screencast that will teach you exactly how to do as much. If you’re unfamiliar, I highly recommend that you view it. However, from time to time, you’ll come across some unique tag names. For example, while working on my personal site reboot, I determined that I’d like to display my nettuts+ videos from Blip.tv RSS feed. Upon reviewing the feed itself, I came across tags, like:
