RSSClientBundle

Service for provide RSS client in your website, you can automatically add content to your site from your favorite information providers.

Bundle Installation

Get the bundle

Add to your /composer.json file :

    "require": {
        ...       
        "desarrolla2/rss-client-bundle": "2.*" 
    },

And make

composer update

Register the bundle

// app/AppKernel.php
<?php

  public function registerBundles()
  {
    return array(
      // ...
      new Desarrolla2\Bundle\RSSClientBundle\RSSClientBundle(),
      );
  }

Using RSS Bundle

Configure providers

You need edit your config.yml and add the rss routes you want to get.

# app/config/config.yml
rss_client:
   cache:
      ttl:     3600 # This is the default
   channels:     
      channel_name1:
         - 'http://www.osukaru.es/feed/'
         - 'http://desarrolla2.com/feed/'
         
      channel_name2:
         - 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/symfony/blog'
         - 'http://www.symfony.es/feed/'

The cache option is completely optional. If not specified the shown default take effect.

Optionally: configure custom processors

If you want to use custom processors to extract additional information from a feed, also add the "processors" key pointing to services that implement the ProcessorInterface.

rss_client:
   processors: ["my_service_id", "my_other_service_id"]

In your controller

Retrieve the service and fetch the content.

<?php

class NewsController extends Controller
{

    /**
     * Renders latest news
     *
     * @return array
     * @Route("/noticias", name="news_index")
     * @Template()
     */
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $this->client = $this->get('rss_client');

        return array(
            'feeds'   => $this->client->fetch('channel_name1'),
        );
    }

}

In your view

Render the content for your users

{% block content %}
    <section>
        {% for feed in feeds %}            
            <article>
                <header>
                    <a href="{{ feed.link }}" target="_blank">{{ feed.title }}</a>
                    <time>{{ feed.pubDate | date('d/m/Y H:i') }}</time>
                </header>
                <p>{{ feed | raw }}</p>
            </article>      
        {% else %}
            <p>Not news :(</p>
        {% endfor %}    
    </section>
{% endblock %}

Contact

You can contact with me on twitter.

More Info

See RSSClient.