PHP: foreach not forming an array - php

Question

I do this and it works.
<?php
function load_file($url)
{
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml = simplexml_load_string(curl_exec($ch));
return $xml;
}
$feedurl = 'http://www.astrology.com/horoscopes/daily-extended.rss';
$rss = load_file($feedurl);
$items = array();
$count = 0;
foreach ($rss->channel->item->description as $i => $description)
{
$items[$count++] = $description;
}
echo $items[0];
?>
When I echo $items[1]; it doesn't show the next one in line. Not sure what I did wrong.

Answer 1

Here is an example of your xml:
<channel>
<item>
<description>blah</description>
</item>
<item>
<description>blah1</description>
</item>
<item>
<description>blah2</description>
</item>
<item>
<description>blah3</description>
</item>
</channel>
When you do $rss->channel->item->description you're getting the first item's description.
You need to first loop through the items and then get each description.
e.g.:
$descriptions = array();
foreach($rss->channel->item as $item){
$descriptions[] = $item->description;
// note I don't need the $count variable... if you just use
// [] then it auto increments the array count for you.
}
Hope that helps. Its untested, but should work.