Web pages often contain <link>
tags that refer to feeds with content relevant
to the particular page. Zend\Feed\Reader\Reader
enables you to retrieve all
feeds referenced by a web page with one method call:
$feedLinks = Zend\Feed\Reader\Reader::findFeedLinks('http://www.example.com/news.html');
Finding feed links requires an HTTP client
To find feed links, 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.
Here the findFeedLinks()
method returns a Zend\Feed\Reader\FeedSet
object,
which is in turn a collection of other Zend\Feed\Reader\FeedSet
objects, each
referenced by <link>
tags on the news.html
web page.
Zend\Feed\Reader\Reader
will throw a
Zend\Feed\Reader\Exception\RuntimeException
upon failure, such as an HTTP
404 response code or a malformed feed.
You can examine all feed links located by iterating across the collection:
$rssFeed = null;
$feedLinks = Zend\Feed\Reader\Reader::findFeedLinks('http://www.example.com/news.html');
foreach ($feedLinks as $link) {
if (stripos($link['type'], 'application/rss+xml') !== false) {
$rssFeed = $link['href'];
break;
}
Each Zend\Feed\Reader\FeedSet
object will expose the rel
, href
, type
,
and title
properties of detected links for all RSS, Atom, or RDF feeds. You
can always select the first encountered link of each type by using a shortcut:
the first encountered link of a given type is assigned to a property named after
the feed type.
$rssFeed = null;
$feedLinks = Zend\Feed\Reader\Reader::findFeedLinks('http://www.example.com/news.html');
$firstAtomFeed = $feedLinks->atom;