Alternative for DOMDocument()

Question

i am using DOMDocument() to include RSS feed in my code. However i get this error:

URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

and thats because my server doesnt allow me either to modify the php.ini file or to set allow_url_fopen to ON.

Is there a workaround for this? This is my full code:

<?php
$rss = new DOMDocument();
$rss->load('rss.php');

$feed = array();
foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
$item = array (
'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue,
'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue,
'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue,
);
array_push($feed, $item);
}
$limit = 5;
echo '<table>';
for($x=0;$x<$limit;$x++) {
 $title = str_replace(' & ', ' &amp; ', $feed[$x]['title']);
 $link = $feed[$x]['link'];

 echo <<<EOF
 <tr>
  <td><a href="$link"><b>$title</b></a></td>
 </tr>
EOF;
}
echo '</table>';
?>

Thank you.

Answer 1

Okay, i solved it myself.

<?php

$k = 'rss.php';
$ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $k);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    $rss = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    $xml = simplexml_load_string($rss, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);

    $feed = array();
    foreach($xml->channel->item as $item){
     $item = array (
     'title' => $item->title,
     'desc' => $item->description,
     'link' => $item->link,
     'date' => $item->pubDate,
     );
     array_push($feed, $item);
    }
$limit = 5;
echo '<table>';
for($x=0;$x<$limit;$x++) {
 $title = str_replace(' & ', ' &amp; ', $feed[$x]['title']);
 $link = $feed[$x]['link'];
 echo <<<EOF
 <tr>
  <td><a href="$link"><b>$title</b></a></td>
 </tr>
EOF;
}
echo '</table>';
?>