Zend\Feed\Reader\Feed\Atom
is used in much the same way as
Zend\Feed\Reader\Feed\Rss
. It provides the same access to feed-level
properties and iteration over entries in the feed. The main difference is in the
structure of the Atom protocol itself. Atom is a successor to RSS; it is a
more generalized protocol and it is designed to deal more easily with feeds that
provide their full content inside the feed, splitting RSS' description
tag
into two elements, summary
and content
, for that purpose.
Read an Atom feed and print the title
and summary
of each entry:
$feed = Zend\Feed\Reader\Reader::import('http://atom.example.com/feed/');
echo 'The feed contains ' . $feed->count() . ' entries.' . "\n\n";
foreach ($feed as $entry) {
echo 'Title: ' . $entry->getTitle() . "\n";
echo 'Description: ' . $entry->getDescription() . "\n";
echo 'URL: ' . $entry->getLink() . "\n\n";
}
Importing requires an HTTP client
To import a feed, you will need to have an HTTP client available.
If you are not using zend-http, you will need to inject
Reader
with the HTTP client. See the section on providing a client to Reader.
In an Atom feed, you can expect to find the following feed properties:
title
: The feed's title, same as RSS' channel title.id
: Every feed and entry in Atom has a unique identifier.link
: Feeds can have multiple links, which are distinguished by a type
attribute. The equivalent to RSS's channel link would be type="text/html"
.
If the link is to an alternate version of the same content that's in the feed,
it would have a rel="alternate"
attribute.subtitle
: The feed's description, equivalent to RSS' channel description.author
: The feed's author, with name
and email
sub-tags.Atom entries commonly have the following properties:
id
: The entry's unique identifier.title
: The entry's title, same as RSS item titles.link
: A link to another format or an alternate view of this entry.
The link property of an atom entry typically has an href
attribute.summary
: A summary of this entry's content.content
: The full content of the entry; can be skipped if the feed just
contains summaries.author
: with name
and email
sub-tags like feeds have.published
: the date the entry was published, in RFC 3339 format.updated
: the date the entry was last updated, in RFC 3339 format.Where relevant, Zend\Feed
supports a number of common RSS extensions including
Dublin Core; Content, Slash, Syndication, and Syndication/Thread; and several
others in common use on blogs.
For more information on Atom and plenty of resources, see http://www.atomenabled.org/.