How to Build a PHP-based RSS Feed Parser

Recently, I was building a website for a telecommunications startup and because they didn’t have a lot of content for their website, I suggested they use the content from a Yahoo Finance RSS feed. In today’s article, I will demonstrate how to write a simple function in PHP that allows you to display content from an RSS feed.

Wikipedia defines a parser as a part of a compiler, or an interpreter, which checks for proper syntax and builds a data structure based on that syntax. In this tutorial, we will take a look at how the PHP parser creates an array in which each element will contain the data found in the RSS feed items. However, I will go into more details when we start writing the PHP code.

I won’t go much into the XHTML/CSS code in this tutorial. Instead, I’ll focus on the PHP side. We’ll be creating a simple site with just two pages; home and news. The idea is to write two PHP functions that will spit out different content; one is for the display of the titles from the feed, and the other is for the content that will appear in a list form like those of a blog archive.



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How to build a Social Networking Website with Drupal

With this article I want to explain how you can plan and build a Social Networking Website using Drupal. The intent of the post is to provide useful tips and informations to understand the issues behind the building of a working on-line community. This writing was inspired by the reading of two interesting books, Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Succesfull On-line Community and Drupal 6 – Social Networking. It’s clear that in a post I can provide only some useful cues to make a well-done work. I suggest to read the books above mentioned if you want to know more about the techniques and best practices for developing a good web network service.

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Showcase of Web Design in Russia

The land mass that is one-sixth of the Earth is always surprising. As the founder of one of design-related magazines in Russia (Designcollector.net), I am happy to present the hidden force that is Russia. I won’t dwell on the classic stereotypes but will rather look at the creativity flowing through.

The era of professional and commercial online design started in Russia about a decade ago. We’re now seeing an increase in professional design and development. I won’t concentrate much on the history of Web design in Russia; that has been happening for ages. Like everywhere in the world, Web design came to Russia as a modern way to present any kind of information to an audience online. So, principles such as simplicity, accessibility and eye-catching design have been cultivated for several years.

Russian Web Design: Mospromstroy

Web development as a profession was relegated to the elite for years until geek heads and artists took it over. For a few years there was a boom of home pages and tiny corporate websites that were built with any regard for the end user. This trend ended thankfully, in large part due to the highly scaled websites that came out the original and still unique studio founded by Artemy Lebedev, which has produced more than 760 websites.

Today, the professional scene of web design consists of thousands of freelancers, studios, agencies and large media companies, along with offshore and outsourcing businesses. I won’t do a “Top 20″ this or that rating, but I will try to touch on the most established parts of Russian Web design, including agencies, freelancers, portals and so on.

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