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Hi there,
I only just learning JavaScript and have a question about a bit of script I am playing with. I am basically trying to access XML elements (RSS feed) through a bit of PHP. Everything is working fine when trying to access the <title> and <link>, but when I get to <description> everything breaks down...
If I comment out this line
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
(By the way, don't worry about my method of getting the feed in, using GET etc. This script is part of an AJAX tutorial and I am just messing with it, trying to make it display the title, link, and description from the rss feed)
Here is my html/JavaScript:
Here is the PHP:
I only just learning JavaScript and have a question about a bit of script I am playing with. I am basically trying to access XML elements (RSS feed) through a bit of PHP. Everything is working fine when trying to access the <title> and <link>, but when I get to <description> everything breaks down...
If I comment out this line
var theDescription = descriptions[j].childNodes[0].nodeValue; and <p>' + theDescription + '</p>' then the script works fine and displays the titles and the links of the feed, but with those lines in it all goes to pot.Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
(By the way, don't worry about my method of getting the feed in, using GET etc. This script is part of an AJAX tutorial and I am just messing with it, trying to make it display the title, link, and description from the rss feed)
Here is my html/JavaScript:
Code:
<html><head><title>AJAX XML Example</title>
</head><body>
<h2>Loading XML content into a DIV</h2>
<div id='info'>This sentence will be replaced</div>
<script>
nocache = "&nocache=" + Math.random() * 1000000
url = "rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories"
request = new ajaxRequest()
request.open("GET", "xmlget.php?url=" + url + nocache, true)
out = "";
request.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (this.readyState == 4)
{
if (this.status == 200)
{
if (this.responseXML != null)
{
titles = this.responseXML.getElementsByTagName('title')
links = this.responseXML.getElementsByTagName('link')
descriptions = this.responseXML.getElementsByTagName('description');
for (j = 0 ; j < titles.length ; ++j)
{
var theTitle = titles[j].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
var theLink = links[j].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
var theDescription = descriptions[j].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
out += '<p><strong>' + theTitle + '</strong><br /><a href="' + theLink + '">' + theLink + '</a></p><p>' + theDescription + '</p>' ;
}
document.getElementById('info').innerHTML = out
}
else alert("Ajax error: No data received")
}
else alert( "Ajax error: " + this.statusText)
}
}
request.send(null)
function ajaxRequest()
{
try
{
var request = new XMLHttpRequest()
}
catch(e1)
{
try
{
request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")
}
catch(e2)
{
try
{
request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
}
catch(e3)
{
request = false
}
}
}
return request
}
</script></body></html>
Code:
<?php // xmlget.php
if (isset($_GET['url'])) {
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
echo file_get_contents("http://".sanitizeString($_GET['url']));
}
function sanitizeString($var) {
$var = strip_tags($var);
$var = htmlentities($var);
return stripslashes($var);
}
?>