Question

I have the following:

<?php

#Load in File
$xmlUrl ="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/rss/mlb/news";
$ConvertToXml = simplexml_load_file($xmlUrl);

# -> Setup XML
$newsStory = $ConvertToXml->channel;

# -----> Load News Stories
for($i = 0;$i<sizeof($newsStory); $i++){

    // Source of Article Info-->
    $SrcTitle=$newsStory[$i]->title;
    $SrcLink=$newsStory[$i]->link;

    // Actual News Article Info -->
    $title=$newsStory[$i]->item->title;
    $desc=$newsStory[$i]->item->description;


    echo '<hr>';
    echo '<strong>'.'Title:'.$title.'</strong>'.'(via: <a href=\''.$SrcLink.'\'>'.$SrcTitle.'</a>'.'<br />';
    //echo 'Link:'.$link.'<br />';
    echo 'Description'.$desc.'<br>';
    echo '<hr>';
}

It outputs just 1 result when it should output about 10 results…

This line: $SrcLink=$newsStory[$i]->link; the “link” word appears to possibly be a ‘reserved’ word here since its purple on my editor as shown in the image below:

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Not sure why your IDE is highlighting that purple, but here is the problem:

$newsStory = $ConvertToXml->channel;

needs to be changed to:

$newsStory = $ConvertToXml->channel->item;

Each entry in the RSS feed is in an <item> tag so you need to be looping over those for the actual feed entries.