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lastRSS Modified For cURL Use

November 17, 2009 by Kyle Brady
Tags: cURL, lastRSS, Open Source, PHP, Programming, RSS
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I recently had to use lastRSS for a project to parse some RSS feeds using PHP, and my server was being cranky about using fopen() to access URLs - despite being overridden to allow it.

So I decided to sidestep the issue and rewrite the file acquisition portion of lastRSS to use cURL instead of fopen, and here it is.

The changes are in the Parse() function:

function Parse ($rss_url) {
// Open and load RSS file
// now uses cURL instead of fopen() -- Kyle Brady [http://www.kyle-brady.com]

$ch = curl_init();

if ($ch !== false) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rss_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$rss_content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Enjoy.

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