How to Fetch FeedBurner feed with PHP and CURL
The code below fetch the feed contents using PHP and CURL request using SimpleXML.
<?php
// URL location of your feed
$feedUrl = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/kapsblog?format=xml";
$feedContent = "";
// Fetch feed from URL
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $feedUrl);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
// FeedBurner requires a proper USER-AGENT...
curl_setopt($curl, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip, deflate");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3");
$feedContent = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
// check if content received
if($feedContent && !empty($feedContent)) {
$feedXml = @simplexml_load_string($feedContent);
if($feedXml) {
?>
<h2>From The Blog...</h2>
<ul>
<?php foreach($feedXml->channel->item as $item) { ?>
<li style="padding:4px 0;"><a href="<?php echo $item->link; ?>"><?php echo $item->title; ?></a></li>
<?php } // end foreach ?>
</ul>
<?php
} // end if
} // end if
?>
