Including RSS Feeds

Copy and paste the following code into the "Source" view of your document. Change the values in $feed_locations to the RSS feeds that you wish to include in your pages -- delete the second URL if you only need one feed, or add others as necessary.

Example code for two RSS feeds, displaying 5 items from each feed:

<?php

    // pull in the SimplePie library
    require_once('SimplePie.php');

    // tell the object where to the feeds are
    $feed_locations = array(
        'http://www.colum.edu/Site_Files/scripts/site_rss.php',
        'http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/columbiacollegechicago'
    );        

    // tell the object how many feed entries you want to get per feed
    $n_individual_feed_items = 5;

    // set the maximum number of items returned. set to false to remove restriction
    $n_total_items = false;

    // initialize the SimplePie object
    $feed = new SimplePie();
    $feed->set_feed_url($feed_locations);
    $feed->set_item_limit($n_individual_feed_items);
    $feed->set_cache_duration(1);
    $feed->set_cache_location("/tmp");
    $feed->init();
    $feed->handle_content_type();
   
    // retrieve the feed items
    $items = $feed->get_items();
   
    $n=1;
   
    // cycle through all the feed items and display them
    foreach ($items as $item) {

        if ($n_total_items && ($n > $n_total_items)) continue;

        $title = $item->get_title();
        $link = $item->get_permalink();
        $posted_date = $item->get_date("l, F j, Y \a\\t h:i a");
        $description = $item->get_description();
        
        // To change the HTML layout of each feed item, edit the following code
        $output .= "<h2>$title</h2>";
        $output .= "<p>$description</p>";
        $output .= "<p>Posted on <a href='$link'>$posted_date</a></p>";
            
        $n++;
        
    }
   
    echo $output;
   
?>