CakePHP SimplePie Component (v1.0) Question/Comments

Notes

  • SimplePHP is a PHP class for retrieval and parsing of RSS feeds. This is a wrapper to that class making it easy to use in the CakePHP framwork.
  • Much of this component is taken from the work of Scott Sansoni (http://cakeforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=53). This is mostly an update so the component works with the lastest version of SimplePie

Example

This is the feed from PseudoCoder.com

  • Automagic JavaScript Validation Helper - Beta
  • Update to Asset Packer CakePHP Helper
  • Article on JavaScript Validation
  • CakePHP Tutorials
  • CakePHP Pagination Recall Component
  • Asset Packer for Non-CakePHP Sites
  • Benchmarking My CakePHP Asset Packer Helper
  • Announcing InStalker.com - Find A Nintendo Wii, DS Lite and More
  • Theming With CakePHP
  • Refactoring CakePHP baked views and controllers

    • ReadMe

    1. You'll need a working version of CakePHP installed. This is running on 1.2.0.6311 beta.
    2. Download SimplePie 1.0.1 and unzip the contents. Move the simplepie.inc to one of the vendors folders. Rename the file to simplepie.php. I like to put the file in the sub folder with the README.txt and LICENSE.txt for easy reference.
    3. Download the component and unzip it to app/controllers/components.
    4. Include the component in any controller that will need it: 
      var $components = array('Simplepie');
    5. In your controller you can load a feed using: 
      $items = $this->Simplepie->feed('http://feeds.feedburner.com/pseudocoder');
$this->set('items', $items);
    6. Then to show the items in your view (you probably want to format it better than this): 
      foreach($items as $item) {
  echo $html->link($item->get_title(), $item->get_permalink()) . '
      ';
}

    Tips

    • This component automatically creates a directory tmp/cache/rss to store the cached feeds.
    • SimplePie has great docs. There is a ton of additional functionality that this component doesn't touch.