PHP RSS XML newsreader

[ARGENTINA]

Hi all,
I hope someone can help,
I've made an RSS xml newsreader in flash that reads rss files from
syndicated news sites, but a lot of these companies get a bit upset if
you access the feed too often.
What I'm hoping someone has is a small php script that will goto
"whatever" site every 30 mins and make a copy os the rss file to the
local server where my site is hosted.
All I need the php script to do is make a copy of it, not parse it.
Thanks in advance if you can help.

Marcos

pd: please include the full script due I am new with php.

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: PHP RSS XML newsreader

ARGENTINA wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all,
> I hope someone can help,
> I've made an RSS xml newsreader in flash that reads rss files from
> syndicated news sites, but a lot of these companies get a bit upset if
> you access the feed too often.
> What I'm hoping someone has is a small php script that will goto
> "whatever" site every 30 mins and make a copy os the rss file to the
> local server where my site is hosted.
> All I need the php script to do is make a copy of it, not parse it.
> Thanks in advance if you can help.
>
> Marcos
>
> pd: please include the full script due I am new with php.[/color]

Use a crontab like the following:

30 * * * * wget -O feed.html http://rss.feed.url


JW

[MikeSoja]

Re: PHP RSS XML newsreader

On 16 Jan 2005 06:57:01 -0800, sjprec@yahoo.co m (ARGENTINA) posted:
[color=blue]
>Hi all,
>I hope someone can help,
>I've made an RSS xml newsreader in flash that reads rss files from
>syndicated news sites, but a lot of these companies get a bit upset if
>you access the feed too often.
>What I'm hoping someone has is a small php script that will goto
>"whatever" site every 30 mins and make a copy os the rss file to the
>local server where my site is hosted.
>All I need the php script to do is make a copy of it, not parse it.
>Thanks in advance if you can help.[/color]
[color=blue]
>Marcos[/color]
[color=blue]
>pd: please include the full script due I am new with php.[/color]

Here's the way I do it...

define(LOCAL, "0");
define(REMOTE, "1");

$location = LOCAL;
$xml_file = array("local.xm l", "remote.xml ");
$cur_time = date("U");
$xml_file_time = filemtime($xml_ file[LOCAL]);
if ($cur_time - $xml_file_time > 60 * 30) //every 30 minutes
$location = REMOTE;

$fp = fopen($xml_file[$location],"r");

if (!$fp) { //if first open fails, open previously saved file.
$location = LOCAL;
$fp = fopen($xml_file[LOCAL],"r");
}
elseif ($location) //or also open remote file, too
$fplocal = fopen($xml_file[LOCAL],"w");
/*
note the local file is not opened for a write if the remote file
could not be opened, so we always have the local file to read
*/
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
if ($fplocal and $data)
fwrite($fplocal , $data, 4096);
xml_parse($xml_ parse, $data, feof($fp));
}

if ($fp)
fclose($fp);

if ($fplocal)
fclose($fplocal );

//--------Mike Soja