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    <td bgcolor="#aaaaee" class="text" align="center"><a href="http://phpxmlclasses.sourceforge.net/">PHP XML Classes</a></td>
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    <td bgcolor="#eeeeff" class="text">Description: This class implements a full RSS 1.0 parser, RSS documents
    can be parsed from local files or URLs, then you can retrieve information about the channel, channel_image,
    channel_textinput and items in the RSS feed. The rssdump.php example can be modified in 5 secs to display
    an RSS feed in they way you want.
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    <td valign="top" class="text" width="50%"><b>NEWS:</b>
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      <li> 06-13-2002 First version of this class released.
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       This class code as well as documentation are hosted at <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a>
       please visit our <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlclasses/">SourceForge page</a> for releases, documentation, bug-tracking, support
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      <li>All the RSS elements can be obtained.
      <li>Based on a full RDF parser this class can understand any valid RDF syntax for RSS.
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      <li>If you have some to-do in mind let me know it.
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      <b>Detailed description and usage:</b>
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  rss=new RSS_parser();
  rss->rss_parse("http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/latest/latest.xml");
  ch=rss->get_channel_data();
  ch_im=rss->get_channel_image_data();
  ch_ti=rss->get_channel_textinput_data();
  items=rss->get_items_data();
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  The rssdump example shows how to use the information returned by the methods, the structures returned by the get methods are:
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    <li>ch: channel data: an asoc array with channel information (if present)
    <li>ch_im: channel image data: an asoc array with channel image information (if present)
    <li>ch_ti: channel textinput data: an asoc array with channel textinput information (if present)
    <li>items: An array of asociative arrays containing items information (if present)
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    <li><a href="#class29">RSS_parser</a></li>
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  <h3>RSS_parser</h3>
  Extends: None

  Description: A class based on an RDF parser to parse RSS feeds, it can parse any valid RSS feed and return all the informationcontained in the RSS document.

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  <CODE>&nbsp;Boolean</CODE></FONT></TD>
            <TD><CODE><B><A HREF="#class29method1">rss_parse</A></B>(string rss)</CODE>
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  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Parses an RSS document</TD>
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            <TD><CODE><B><A HREF="#class29method2">get_channel_data</A></B>(string rss)</CODE>
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  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Returns information about the channel</TD>
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            <TD><CODE><B><A HREF="#class29method3">get_channel_image_data</A></B>(string rss)</CODE>
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  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Returns information about the channel image if present</TD>
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  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Returns information about channel's textinput if present</TD>
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            <TD><CODE><B><A HREF="#class29method5">get_items_data</A></B>(string rss)</CODE>
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  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Returns information about channel's items</TD>
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  <H3>rss_parse</H3>
  
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  Boolean <B>rss_parse</B>(string rss)</PRE>
                 
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  <DD>This parses an RSS document from a URL or a file storing the information in the object's data members. Accesory functions are provided to retrieve the parsed data.<DD>&nbsp;
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  <DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD>
                            rss - URL or file name for the RSS document to be parsed<br><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>True if the feed was parsed succesfully, false if there was an error.<DT><B>Throws:</B><DD><CODE>None</CODE>
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  Asoc Array <B>get_channel_data</B>(string rss)</PRE>
                 
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  <DD>This returns information about the channel described in the RSS feed, it returns an asociative array with the information present in the feed about the channel. For example link, description, image, textinput.<DD>&nbsp;
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                            <DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>An asociative array where each key describe a channelproperty if present in the RSS feed.<DT><B>Throws:</B><DD><CODE>None</CODE>
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  Asoc Array <B>get_channel_image_data</B>(string rss)</PRE>
                 
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  <DD>This returns an asociative array containing information about the channel image. For example link, title and url<DD>&nbsp;
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  <DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD>
                            <DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>An asociative array where each key describes a channel image property.<DT><B>Throws:</B><DD><CODE>None</CODE>
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  Asoc Array <B>get_channel_textinput_data</B>(string rss)</PRE>
                 
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  <DD>Tihs method returns information about the channel's textinput element if present in the RSS feed. It returns an asociative array where each key describes a property of the textinput element, for example: description, link, name, title.<DD>&nbsp;
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  <DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD>
                            <DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>An asociative array where each key describes a channel's texinput property if present.<DT><B>Throws:</B><DD><CODE>None</CODE>
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  Array <B>get_items_data</B>(string rss)</PRE>
                 
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  <DD>This method returns an array of items. Each member of the array is an asociative array describing an item. For each item properties present in the RSS feed are detailed, for example: title, link, description<DD>&nbsp;
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  <DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD>
                            <DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>An array of asociative arrays. 
  Typical way to parse it:
  foreach(items as item) {
     print("An item: <br/>");
     foreach(item as key=>val) {
       print("key: val<br/>");
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