So lets say i have a google news feed, like this: https://news.google.com/news/feeds?pz=1&cf=all&ned=no_no&hl=no&q=%22something%22&output=atom&num=1
Grabbing the title, author and link would be easy, but how would i go around getting say the first 200 characters of the content? its full of html, and mixed in with the title and author aswell.
i could use strip_tags on it, but it would still be a mess.
Any way to make google return a ['description'] maybe?
or is there perhaps any other good news feeds that gives me the content in a way thats easier to manage?
[edit]
Update on how i ended up doing it.
$news = @simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents('https://news.google.com/news/feeds?pz=1&cf=all&ned=no_no&hl=no&q=%22molde+fotballklubb%22+OR+%22tornekrattet%22+OR+%22mfk%22+OR+%22oddmund+bjerkeset%22+-%22moss%22&output=atom&num=1'), 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
$data = get_object_vars($news->{'entry'});
$test = explode('<font size="-1">', $data['content']);
$link = get_object_vars($data['link']);
$return['title'] = strip_tags($test[0]);
$return['author'] = strip_tags($test[1]);
$return['description'] = strip_tags($test[2]);
$return['link'] = $link['@attributes']['href'];
It is still not working properly, but thats because the feed gives me the content in different ways all the time. Sometimes the content of the news article itself will just be metadata like the authors and image descriptions.
And the breaking it up by html tags when the html have changes from time to time causes some problems. But i cant figure out any othe way of doing it with this feed.
