simplexml_load_file generates same post repeatedly from WP feed - php

Question

I'm using simplexml_load_file to get rss feed from from a wordpress blog. Here is my code
$rssfile = simplexml_load_file( "http://blog.sufuraamathi.com/?feed=rss2" );
$items = $rssfile->channel->item ;
foreach( $items as $item ) {
$article = array();
$article['title'] = $item->title;
$article['link'] = $item->link;
$article['category'] = $item->category;
}
foreach( $items as $item ) { ?>
<?php if($article['category']=="Uncategorized") { ?>
<div><?php echo $article['title'];?></div>
<?php
} } ;
?>
The Problem: It outputs the same post repeatedly x times, where x is total number of posts. Right now there are only two posts in the Uncategorized category and three more posts in other categories. But the code echos the following:
<div>Hello world!</div>
<div>Hello world!</div>
<div>Hello world!</div>
<div>Hello world!</div>
<div>Hello world!</div>

Answer 1

Your problem is on the fifth row of your posted code. You must take out the array definition of the first foreach loop:
$rssfile = simplexml_load_file( "http://blog.sufuraamathi.com/?feed=rss2" );
$items = $rssfile->channel->item ;
$article = array(); // <- put it here
foreach( $items as $item ) {
$article['title'] = $item->title;
$article['link'] = $item->link;
$article['category'] = $item->category;
}
...
as your current solution resets the $article array for each row. But why don't you loop everything in one foreach loop? If you're not using $article for some other purpose I don't see the use of assigning $item data to an array. Code could be simplified:
$rssfile = simplexml_load_file( "http://blog.sufuraamathi.com/?feed=rss2" );
$items = $rssfile->channel->item ;
foreach( $items as $item ) { ?>
<?php if($item->category=="Uncategorized") { ?>
<div><?php echo $item->title;?></div>
<?php
} } ?>