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<?php
// simple timeout in seconds
$timeout = 2;

// variable to be used later
$xml_string = “”;

// let’s open the socket to the RSS feed
$fp = @fsockopen(“feeds.warhammeronline.com”, 80, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);

// check to see if the fsockopen returned a valid resource
if ($fp) {
// now that we have a valid resource, let’s request the data that we need
fwrite($fp, “GET /warherald/RSSFeed.war?type=current HTTP/1.0\r\n”);
fwrite($fp, “Host: feeds.warhammeronline.com\r\n”);
fwrite($fp, “Connection: Close\r\n\r\n”);

// let’s wait until data becomes available within the stream
stream_set_blocking($fp, TRUE);

// but let’s only wait for a specific amount of time
stream_set_timeout($fp,$timeout);

// get the header/meta data to use, currently we are just using this to see if we timeout or not
$info = stream_get_meta_data($fp);

// while there is still data in the stream and we haven’t timedout, then get the next bit of data
while ((!feof($fp)) && (!$info[‘timed_out’])) {

// get the next line in the stream
$xml_string .= fgets($fp, 4096);

// get the header/meta data to use, currently we are just using this to see if we timeout or not
$info = stream_get_meta_data($fp);

// this isn’t required, but I like to send the data to the browser as soon as possible
ob_flush;
flush();
}

// we are done with the stream, so get rid of it
fclose($fp);
}

// we timed out, so let the user know, if you want
if ($info[‘timed_out’]) {
echo “Warhammer News feed – Connection timed out”;
} else {
// we need to strip off the initial part of the stream that we don’t need, we just want the XML from the RSS feed
$xml_string = substr($xml_string, strpos($xml_string, ‘<‘));

// we are using the built in php function to parse the xml
// and convert it into an object we can use
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_string);

// check to see if the object was created from the RSS feed
if (!is_object($xml)) {
echo “Warhammer News feed – Error converting xml”;
} else {
// this section, is a bit hardcoded for this particular RSS feed,
// but basically, you just walk the XML tree as an object

// here we are looping through all the children of this particular parent
foreach($xml->channel->item as $key) {
// variable to use later
$temp_title = $key->title;
$link = $key->link;

// I don’t always have enough room on the page to show the
// entire title of the RSS feed, so I am just limiting it here
// and then adding 3 dots (…) to show that the title is longer than displayed
$title = str_replace(‘-‘, ”, substr($key->title, 0, 25)) . “…”;

// display it to the page, even though the text of the link will be
// limited to a specific number of characters
// when you roll over it with your mouse, it will show the full title
// in the little popup that is built into the href tag
echo “<li><a href=’$link’ target=’_blank’ title=’$temp_title’>$title</a></li>”;
}
}

// we are done, so get rid of it
$xml = NULL;
}