Displaying thumbnails from RSS feed

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June 3rd, 2012, 03:53 PM

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PHP-General - Displaying thumbnails from RSS feed

Hello

I'm trying to display a RSS feed and display the media:thumbnail image with it.

I've got the feed working fine, but I'm struggling with displaying the thumbnails correctly. I'm using MTV news feed: http://www.mtv.co.uk/rss/news

The code I'm using is:

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 $url = "http://www.mtv.co.uk/rss/news";

$rss = simplexml_load_file($url);



$data = $rss->xpath ('channel/item/media:thumbnail');





if($rss)

{

echo '<h1>'.$rss->channel->title.'</h1>';

echo '<li>'.$rss->channel->pubDate.'</li>';

$items = $rss->channel->item;

foreach($items as $item)

{

$title = $item->title;

$link = $item->link;

$img = $item->thumbnail;

$published_on = $item->pubDate;

$description = $item->description;



echo '<h3><a href="'.$link.'">'.$title.'</a></h3>';

foreach ($data as $item) {

    

    echo '<img src="'.$item['url'].'" />';

    

}

echo '<span>('.$published_on.')</span>';

echo '<p>'.$description.'</p>';



}

}

If you look on http://www.teenchill.co.uk you'll see the problem. The feed displays correctly, but all 10 thumbnails are displayed rather than one for each news story.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Many thanks

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June 3rd, 2012, 04:59 PM

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PHP Code:


		
			
 $data = $rss->xpath ('channel/item/media:thumbnail');

That will get all the thumbnails. To get just the one from the current <item> change

PHP Code:


		
			
 $img = $item->children("media", true)->thumbnail;

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June 3rd, 2012, 06:22 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by requinix

PHP Code:


		
			
 $data = $rss->xpath ('channel/item/media:thumbnail');

That will get all the thumbnails. To get just the one from the current <item> change

PHP Code:


		
			
 $img = $item->children("media", true)->thumbnail;

Hello, thanks for the reply. I'm a little confused. Do I need to replace

PHP Code:


		
			
 $data = $rss->xpath ('channel/item/media:thumbnail');

with

PHP Code:


		
			
 $img = $item->children("media", true)->thumbnail;

?

I've been messing around with this for a while now and only either manage to display all the images or none.

June 3rd, 2012, 06:37 PM

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I think I have it figured out. I used:

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 $thumbAttr = $item->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/')->thumbnail->attributes();

Instead of

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 $img = $item->children("media", true)->thumbnail;

then echoed

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 $thumbAttr['url']

and that seems to have done the trick.

Thanks for your help.

January 19th, 2013, 09:50 AM

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Hello,

I am trying to do something similar, could you please post your final code here?

Thanks!

PHP-General - Displaying thumbnails from RSS feed

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