Question

I’m making a small RSS reader and I want it to parse a website and make a list of the feed. But the <ul> and <li> tags aren’t being rendered. Any suggestions?

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8");

function jobs() {
    $output = array();
    $feed_url = 'http://www.jobs.ge/rss/jobs/';
    $feed = simplexml_load_file($feed_url);

    for($j=0; $j<10; $j++){

        $title = $feed ->channel->item[$j]->title;
        $link = $feed ->channel->item[$j]->link;
        $desc= $feed ->channel->item[$j]->description;
        $date = $feed ->channel->item[$j]->pubDate;

        $output[] = array (
            'title' =>$title,
            'link' =>$link,
            'description'=> $desc,
            'date'=> $date,
        );
    }
    return $output;
}

$feed = jobs();
?>

<ul>
<?php
    foreach ($feed as $item) {
        echo '<li>', $item['title'],'</li>';
    }
?>
</ul>

Answer 1

You set the content-type to text/plain so the browser does what it should and renders it as plain text. Set the content-type to text/html and it should render even though it’s not completely valid HTML.