Last RSS simple and powerfull PHP RSS parser/reader. Works as a PHP class and support RSS 0.9x, RSS/RDF 1.0 and RSS 2.0. Lastrss parser script use quick regullar expressions instead of XML parser and returns associative array with RSS fields as a result.
Features of last rss php script:
- All RSS versions supported (0.9, 1.0 and 2.0)
- Transparent cache (doesn’t cache RSS file directly, neither HTML output, but serialized variable; cached data isn’t parsed every time, but you can still access individual fields)
- pubDate/lastBuildDate conversion to any date/time format
- Character encoding conversion (all encodings supported by iconv library)
- Returns an associative array with RSS fields
- Regullar expression parsing (very quick)
- Strips HTML from description (both hard-coded and entity-coded)
- Optional limit the number of returned items
- Two ways how to proceed CDATA information (get/strip CDATA content)
- Free open-source software (GNU/GPL)
Download free rss parser script: Last RSS
