About Limiting Rss Feed - php

Question

I want only the latest 5 feeds to be shown on my website.
I am using the following code to fetch rss feed... Can any one help to limited feeds to be shown... Thank You In ADVANCE :)
CODE THAT AM USING
<?php
require_once('rss_fetch.inc');
$url = 'http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss';
$rss = fetch_rss($url);
echo "Site: ", $rss->channel['title'], "<br>\n";
foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
$title = $item['title'];
$url = $item['link'];
$desc = $item['description'];
$category = $item['category'];
echo "<a href=$url>$title</a>$desc <br/>CATEGORY : $category <br/><br/> ";
}
?>

Answer 1

Limit it using foreach?
foreach ($rss->items as $i => $item ) { // use $i as counter
$title = $item['title'];
$url = $item['link'];
$desc = $item['description'];
$category = $item['category'];
echo "<a href=$url>$title</a>$desc <br/>CATEGORY : $category <br/><br/> ";
if($i == 4) break; // add this, == 4 is because $i starts from 0
}

Answer 2

If you're looking to limit the number of posts, you just need to keep track of them and break out of the foreach loop when applicable, e.g.
<?php
require_once('rss_fetch.inc');
$url = 'http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss';
$rss = fetch_rss($url);
echo "Site: ", $rss->channel['title'], "<br>\n";
$numposts = 0;
$maxposts = 5;
foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
$numposts++;
if ($numposts<=$maxposts) {
$title = $item['title'];
$url = $item['link'];
$desc = $item['description'];
$category = $item['category'];
echo "<a href=$url>$title</a>$desc <br/>CATEGORY : $category <br/><br/> ";
} else {
break;
}
}
?>