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PHP Integration example

This example shows you how to query the Wixi feeds from your website and include their output on your pages. It will show the 5 latest public media files added on Wixi.

It is written in PHP programmation language, but could easily be ported to any other language.
Requirements: PHP5 webserver with XML extension enabled

Source Code

<?php
/*
        WIXI Source Code (29.02.2008)
        This example shows you how to retrieve the output of Wixi feeds and include them on your pages
*/


// Initialize variables
$cnt = 0;
$wixi_feed_url = "http://wixi.com/rss2/rss2.php";

echo '<h1>Latest files added on <a href="http://www.wixi.com" target="_blank">Wixi</a>';

// Retrieve the feed content
$feed_content = file_get_contents($wixi_feed_url);

// Load the XML feed
$xml = simplexml_load_string(utf8_encode($feed_content));


// Parse the XML feed
foreach($xml->item as $item)
{
        $title = $item->title;
        $link = $item->link;
       
        // Display the output
        echo '<a href="'.$link.'" target="_blank">'.$title.'</a><br />';
       
        // Limit to 5 results
        if ($cnt > 4)
                break;
}       
       
?>

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