comparison vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/doc/book/consuming-rss.md @ 0:4c8ae668cc8c

Initial import (non-working)

+# Consuming RSS Feeds
+
+## Reading a feed
+
+To read an RSS feed, pass its URL to `Zend\Feed\Reader\Reader::import()`:
+
+```php
+$channel = Zend\Feed\Reader\Reader::import('http://rss.example.com/channelName');
+```
+
+> ## Importing requires an HTTP client
+>
+> To import a feed, you will need to have an [HTTP client](zend.feed.http-clients)
+> available. 
+>
+> If you are not using zend-http, you will need to inject `Reader` with the HTTP
+> client. See the [section on providing a client to Reader](http-clients.md#providing-a-client-to-reader).
+
+If any errors occur fetching the feed, a
+`Zend\Feed\Reader\Exception\RuntimeException` will be thrown.
+
+## Get properties
+
+Once you have a feed object, you can access any of the standard RSS channel
+properties via the various instance getter methods:
+
+```php
+echo $channel->getTitle();
+echo $channel->getAuthor();
+// etc.
+```
+
+If channel properties have attributes, the getter method will return a key/value
+pair, where the key is the attribute name, and the value is the attribute value.
+
+```php
+$author = $channel->getAuthor();
+echo $author['name'];
+```
+
+Most commonly, you'll want to loop through the feed and do something with its
+entries.  `Zend\Feed\Reader\Feed\Rss` internally converts all entries to a
+`Zend\Feed\Reader\Entry\Rss` instance. Entry properties, similarly to channel
+properties, can be accessed via getter methods, such as `getTitle`,
+`getDescription`, etc.
+
+An example of printing all titles of articles in a channel is:
+
+```php
+foreach ($channel as $item) {
+    echo $item->getTitle() . "\n";
+}
+```
+
+If you are not familiar with RSS, here are the standard elements you can expect
+to be available in an RSS channel and in individual RSS items (entries).
+
+Required channel elements:
+
+- `title`: The name of the channel.
+- `link`: The URL of the web site corresponding to the channel.
+- `description`: A sentence (or more) describing the channel.
+
+Common optional channel elements:
+
+- `pubDate`: The publication date of this set of content, in RFC 822 date
+  format.
+- `language`: The language the channel is written in.
+- `category`: One or more (specified by multiple tags) categories the channel
+  belongs to.
+
+RSS `<item>` elements do not have any strictly required elements. However,
+either `title` or `description` must be present.
+
+Common item elements:
+
+- `title`: The title of the item.
+- `link`: The URL of the item.
+- `description`: A synopsis of the item.
+- `author`: The author's email address.
+- `category`: One more categories that the item belongs to.
+- `comments`: URL of comments relating to this item.
+- `pubDate`: The date the item was published, in RFC 822 date format.
+
+In your code you can always test to see if an element is non-empty by calling
+the getter:
+
+```php
+if ($item->getPropname()) {
+    // ... proceed.
+}
+```
+
+Where relevant, `Zend\Feed` supports a number of common RSS extensions including
+Dublin Core, Atom (inside RSS); the Content, Slash, Syndication,
+Syndication/Thread extensions; as well as several others.
+
+Please see the official [RSS 2.0 specification](http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html)
+for further information.