Display your RSS feed count in plain text

3 comments // Jul 8th, 2008 // PHP

This tutorial will show you how to display your Feedburner feed count as a plain text. A good example is shown by Smashing Magazine’s feed count.

The Code

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<?php
//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=your-feed";
 
//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();
 
//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);
//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
 
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
 
//end get cool feedburner count
?>

You need to replace “your-feed” (3rd row) with your feed url

Now to display your feed count anywhere just echo the $fb variable like this :

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1	<?php echo $fb;?>

Source : 45n5.com

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Jul 08, 2008, 12:38 pm

Kevin says:

Nice example of using CURL with PHP. I was struggling to display rss data of the object return by curl. This example helped me to make it working… Nice work.

Jul 08, 2008, 2:44 am