Miscellany

<?php

$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
	global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
	if ($insideitem) {
		$tag = $name;
	} elseif ($name == "ITEM") {
		$insideitem = true;
	}
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
	global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
	if ($name == "ITEM") {
		printf("<dt><b><a href='%s'>%s</a></b></dt>",
			trim($link),htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));
		printf("<dd>%s</dd>",htmlspecialchars(trim($description)));
		$title = "";
		$description = "";
		$link = "";
		$insideitem = false;
	}
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {
	global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
	if ($insideitem) {
	switch ($tag) {
		case "TITLE":
		$title .= $data;
		break;
		case "DESCRIPTION":
		$description .= $data;
		break;
		case "LINK":
		$link .= $data;
		break;
	}
	}
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
$fp = fopen("http://www.funnypetpictures.com/rss/newpets.xml","r")
	or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
	xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
		or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
			xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
			xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

?>