Display rss xml index in html - php

Question

I am adding an RSS feed to my website. I created the RSS.xml index file and next I want to display its contents in a nicely formatted way in a webpage.
Using PHP, I can do this:
$index = file_get_contents ($path . 'RSS.xml');
echo $index;
But all that does is dump the contents as a long stream of text with the tags removed.
I know that treating RSS.xml as a link, like this:
<a href="../blogs/RSS.xml">
<img src="../blogs/feed-icon-16.gif">Blog Index
</a>
causes my browser to parse and display it in a reasonable way when the user clicks on the link. However I want to embed it directly in the web page and not make the user go through another click.
What is the proper way to do what I want?

Answer 1

Use the following code:
include_once('Simple/autoloader.php');
$feed = new SimplePie();
$feed->set_feed_url($url);
$feed->enable_cache(false);
$feed->set_output_encoding('utf-8');
$feed->init();
$i=0;
$items = $feed->get_items();
foreach ($items as $item) {
$i++;
/*You are getting title,description,date of your rss by the following code*/
$title = $item->get_title();
$url = $item->get_permalink();
$desc = $item->get_description();
$date = $item->get_date();
}
Download the Simple folder data from : https://github.com/jewelhuq/Online-News-Grabber/tree/master/worldnews/Simple
Hope it will work for you. There $url mean your rss feed url. If you works then response.

Answer 2

Turns out, it's simple by using the PHP xml parer function:
$xml = simplexml_load_file ($path . 'RSS.xml');
$channel = $xml->channel;
$channel_title = $channel->title;
$channel_description = $channel->description;
echo "<h1>$channel_title</h1>";
echo "<h2>$channel_description</h2>";
foreach ($channel->item as $item)
{
$title = $item->title;
$link = $item->link;
$descr = $item->description;
echo "<h3><a href='$link'>$title</a></h3>";
echo "<p>$descr</p>";
}