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I’m trying to parse out an RSS feed for images. My original code grabbed the title, description, link, and pubDate just fine. I read a tutorial online on how to get the images out as well, but now that I’ve updated my pull it gives me the errror:
Fatal error: Call to a member function getAttribute() on a non-object in /home/ode/public_html/dev/cron-insights2.php on line 10

Here was my original code:

<?php

$rss = new DOMDocument();
$rss->load('http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedburner/Dvzy?format=xml');
$feed = array();

//FOR EACH ITEM RETURN RSS
foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {

    $img = $rss->getElementsByTagName('img')->item(0)->getAttribute('src');

    $item = array(
        'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
        'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue,
        'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue,
        'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue,
        'image' => $img,
    );
    array_push($feed, $item);
}

echo '<pre>';
var_dump($feed);
echo '</pre>';

I was able to fix the issue by tweaking the code below:

<?php 

error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo '<meta charset="utf-8" />';
echo '<pre>';

$url = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedburner/Dvzy?format=xml';
$xml = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = str_replace('<content:encoded>', '<content_encoded>', $xml);
$xml = str_replace('</content:encoded>', '</content_encoded>', $xml);
$obj = SimpleXML_Load_String($xml, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);

// ACTIVATE THIS TO SEE THE XML
// echo htmlentities($xml);

// ACTIVATE THIS TO SEE THE OBJECT
// var_dump($obj);

// COLLECT INFORMATION HERE
$feed = [];

// A REGEX THAT FINDS IMAGE TAGS SRC ATTRIBUTE
$rgx
= '~'                  // REGEX DELIMITER
. 'src="'              // SRC INSIDE IMAGE TAG
. '('                  // START CAPTURE GROUP
. '[^"]*'              // ANYTHING UP TO END
. ')'                  // ENDOF CAPTURE GROUP
. '"'                  // END OF SRC ATTRIBUTE
. '~'                  // REGEX DELIMITER
. 'i'                  // FLAG: CASE INSENSITIVE
. 's'                  // FLAG: SINGLE LINE
;

foreach ($obj->channel->item as $item)
{
    $node['title'] = (string)$item->title;
    $node['desc']  = (string)$item->description;
    $node['link']  = (string)$item->link;
    $node['date']  = (string)$item->pubDate;

    $content       = $item->content_encoded;
    preg_match_all($rgx, $content, $match);
    $node['image'] = $match[0][0];
    $feed[] = $node;
}
var_dump($feed);

One Comment

  • Vijay Vijay says:

    <?php
    //require 'db_connection.php';
    error_reporting(E_ALL);
    echo '’;
    echo ”;

    $url = ‘https://tamil.oneindia.com/rss/tamil-news-fb.xml’;
    $xml = file_get_contents($url);
    $xml = str_replace(”, ”, $xml);
    $xml = str_replace(”, ”, $xml);
    $obj = SimpleXML_Load_String($xml, ‘SimpleXMLElement’, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

    // ACTIVATE THIS TO SEE THE XML
    // echo htmlentities($xml);

    // ACTIVATE THIS TO SEE THE OBJECT
    // var_dump($obj);

    // COLLECT INFORMATION HERE
    $feed = [];

    // A REGEX THAT FINDS IMAGE TAGS SRC ATTRIBUTE
    $rgx
    = ‘~’ // REGEX DELIMITER
    . ‘src=”‘ // SRC INSIDE IMAGE TAG
    . ‘(‘ // START CAPTURE GROUP
    . ‘[^”]*’ // ANYTHING UP TO END
    . ‘)’ // ENDOF CAPTURE GROUP
    . ‘”‘ // END OF SRC ATTRIBUTE
    . ‘~’ // REGEX DELIMITER
    . ‘i’ // FLAG: CASE INSENSITIVE
    . ‘s’ // FLAG: SINGLE LINE
    ;

    foreach ($obj->channel->item as $item)
    {
    $node[‘title’] = (string)$item->title;
    $node[‘desc’] = (string)$item->description;
    $node[‘link’] = (string)$item->link;
    $node[‘date’] = (string)$item->pubDate;
    $node[‘image’] = (string)$item->enclosure;

    echo $node[‘title’];
    echo “”;
    echo $node[‘desc’];
    echo “”;
    echo $node[‘link’];
    echo “”;
    echo $node[‘date’];
    echo “”;
    echo $node[‘image’];

    $title = $node[‘title’];
    $description = $node[‘desc’];
    $link = $node[‘link’];
    $pubdate = $node[‘date’];
    $image = $node[‘image’];

    if (isset($item->enclosure)) {
    echo $item->enclosure[‘url’].”;
    }

    $sql = ‘INSERT INTO `test`(title, link, description) VALUES(“‘.$node[‘title’].'”, “‘.$node[‘desc’].'”, “‘.$node[‘link’].'”)’;

    if(!mysqli_query($dblink, $sql)) {
    echo ‘ERROR!‘;
    }else{
    echo ‘Its okay‘;
    }

    //$content = $item->content_encoded;
    //preg_match_all($rgx, $content, $match);
    //$node[‘image’] = $match[0][0];
    //$feed[] = $node;

    }
    var_dump($feed);

    ?>

    Please help and suggest me insert data into Mysql.

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