Well this is the continuation from ealier story to my earlier post about messing around with RSS feeds with PHP. The synopsis of my little project was to capture the recents job postings from a really good job posting website. Take a look below for the code.
~david maciasSome limitations: I need to learn how to reuse the XML parser that way I don’t have to build it and clean it up new everytime, creates really messy code. I am not sure how bad of a load it is causing on the RSS home website. Among other things, but hey for 2 hours of hacking this works out pretty decent. Check out a live example at: Example
<html>
<head>
<title>Bottom Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
//CSS to ensure that text starts on top of colum regarldless of how many entries are received
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.veralign {
vertical-align: top;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<?php
if (($_GET['city']) == NULL){
printf("No City Selected");
//if there is no city selected do not process and code, saves resources
}
else {
printf("<p>City: ");
printf($_GET['city']);
printf("</p>");
class RSSParser {
var $insideitem = false;
var $sectitle = "";
var $title = "";
var $link = "";
var $creator = "";
var $language = "";
var $source = "";
var $rights = "";
var $date = "";
var $type = "";
function startElement($parser, $tagName, $attrs) {
if ($this->insideitem) {
$this->tag = $tagName;
}
elseif ($tagName == "ITEM") {
$this->insideitem = true;
}
}
function endElement($parser, $tagName) {
if ($tagName == "ITEM") {
printf("<font size =\"2\"><b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b> [ %s ]</font><BR>", trim($this->link), htmlspecialchars(trim($this->title)), htmlspecialchars(trim($this->source)));
printf("<font size=\"2\"><b>Date: %s </b></font><BR>", htmlspecialchars(trim($this->date)));
printf("<font size=\"1\">Creator: %s</font><BR>", htmlspecialchars(trim($this->creator)));
printf("<font size=\"1\">Rights: %s</font><BR><BR>", htmlspecialchars(trim($this->rights)));
$this->title = "";
$this->link = "";
$this->source = "";
$this->date = "";
$this->rights = "";
$this->creator = "";
$this->insideitem = false;
}
}
function characterData($parser, $data) {
if ($this->insideitem) {
switch ($this->tag) {
case "DC:TITLE":
$this->title .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$this->link .= $data;
break;
case "DC:CREATOR":
$this->creator .= $data;
break;
case "DC:RIGHTS":
$this->rights .= $data;
break;
case "DC:DATE":
$this->date .= $data;
break;
case "DC:SOURCE":
$this->source .= $data;
break;
}
}
}
}
printf("<table width=\"100%%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\"><tr>");
printf("<td class=\"veralign\">");
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
$rss_parser = new RSSParser();
xml_set_object($xml_parser,&$rss_parser);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
printf("<B>%s Internet Engineering</B><BR>", $_GET['city']);
$fp = fopen("http://".$_GET['city'].".craigslist.org/eng/index.rss","r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
printf("</td>");
//////////////
printf("<td class=\"veralign\">");
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
$rss_parser = new RSSParser();
xml_set_object($xml_parser,&$rss_parser);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
printf("<B>%s Software/DBA</B><BR>", $_GET['city']);
$fp1 = fopen("http://".$_GET['city'].".craigslist.org/sof/index.rss","r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp1, 4096))
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp1))
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp1);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
printf("</td>");
///////////
printf("<td class=\"veralign\">");
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
$rss_parser = new RSSParser();
xml_set_object($xml_parser,&$rss_parser);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
printf("<B>%s Systems/Networking</B><BR>", $_GET['city']);
$fp1 = fopen("http://".$_GET['city'].".craigslist.org/sad/index.rss","r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp1, 4096))
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp1))
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp1);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
printf("</td>");
///////////
printf("<td class=\"veralign\">");
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
$rss_parser = new RSSParser();
xml_set_object($xml_parser,&$rss_parser);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
printf("<B>%s Web/Design</B><BR>", $_GET['city']);
$fp1 = fopen("http://".$_GET['city'].".craigslist.org/art/index.rss","r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp1, 4096))
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp1))
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp1);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
printf("</td>");
///////////
printf("<td class=\"veralign\">");
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
$rss_parser = new RSSParser();
xml_set_object($xml_parser,&$rss_parser);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
printf("<B>%s Tech Support</B><BR>", $_GET['city']);
$fp1 = fopen("http://".$_GET['city'].".craigslist.org/tch/index.rss","r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp1, 4096))
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp1))
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp1);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
printf("</td>");
printf("</tr></table>");
}
?>
</p>
</body>
</html>