How can I parse a complex XML with PHP and CDATA?

What is the best way to parse XML (RSS) in PHP?

• I've not coded for about 5 years and I'm trying to get back into things to help out but it's taking some time. I'd like to parse a load of RSS feeds and output to HTML using PHP.

• Answer:

  Use SimpleXML (http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php), which has been part of Core PHP since PHP 5.0. As a simple example, the following code displays the title nodes of an RSS feed (substitute an actual URL for $rss_url): $feed = simplexml_load_file($rss_url); foreach ($feed->channel->item as $item) { echo $item->title . '<br>'; }