RSS displayed with PHP – Updated!

A week ago I posted about using PHP to display an RSS feed. We moved to a new server that did not have DOM enabled, so I have updated my code to use curl instead of DOMDocument. Either method does work, but this is nice and clean. See below for my new code:

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/alert-rss.css" media="all">
</head>

<body>

<?php

//set timezone
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

//set RSS feed
$handle = curl_init('https://url-of-rss-feed.com');

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE); 
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'identity');

//get RSS feed from $handle
$response = curl_exec($handle);

curl_close($handle);

$xml = simplexml_load_string($response, "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_NOCDATA);
$json = json_encode($xml);
$data = json_decode($json, true);

//load feed
$feeds =  array();

//load only required feed items
if(isset($data['channel']['item'])) {
    foreach($data['channel']['item'] as $item) {
        $feeds[] =  array(
            'title' =>  $item['title'],
            'desc'  =>  $item['description'],
            'date'  =>  $item['pubDate'],
        );
    }
}

//set the internal point of the array to last element
end($feeds);

//pull key of array at pointer so we only display one entry
$key = key($feeds);

//set variables to display data from array
$title = $feeds[$key]['title'];
$description = $feeds[$key]['desc'];
$date = date('l F d, Y g:ia', strtotime($feeds[$key]['date']));

//set $end_date for when RSS expires - calculation entered as (hours*secondsperhour)
$end_date = date('l F d, Y H:i', strtotime($feeds[$key]['date']) + (18*3600));

//set how date variables are calculated for comparison purposes
$today = date('l F d, Y H:i');
$today_calc = strtotime($today);
$end_date_calc = strtotime($end_date);

//display what we have found if it is current
if($today_calc < $end_date_calc) {
	echo '<div id="blinky-div"><p><strong>'.$title.'</strong><br />';
	echo '<small><em>Posted on '.$date.'</em></small></p>';
	echo '<p>'.$description.'</p></div>';
//hide div if there is no current data
} else {
	    echo '<div style="display: none;">No current RSS</div>';
}
?>

</body>
</html>

RSS displayed with PHP – Updated!

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