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Integrates SimplePie RSS Parser into Symfony and setting up caching to the symfony cache folder.

Installation

Bring in the vendor libraries

This can be done in two different ways:

Method #1) Use composer

"require": {
    "fkr/simplepie-bundle": "1.0.*@dev"
}

Method #2) Use deps file

[SimplePie]
    git=git://github.com/simplepie/simplepie.git
	target=simplepie
	
[FkrSimplePieBundle]
    git=git://github.com/fkrauthan/FkrSimplePieBundle.git
	target=bundles/Fkr/SimplePieBundle

Method #3) Use git submodules

git submodule add git://github.com/simplepie/simplepie.git vendor/simplepie
git submodule add git://github.com/fkrauthan/FkrSimplePieBundle.git vendor/bundles/Fkr/SimplePieBundle

Register the SimplePie and Fkr namespaces

This is not required if you installed using composer.

// app/autoload.php
$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    'Fkr'  => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles',
    // your other namespaces
));
$loader->registerPrefixes(array(
    'SimplePie'	   => __DIR__.'/../vendor/simplepie/library',
    // your other namespaces
));

Add SimplePieBundle to your application kernel

// app/AppKernel.php
public function registerBundles()
{
    return array(
        // ...
        new Fkr\SimplePieBundle\FkrSimplePieBundle(),
        // ...
    );
}

Configuration

# app/config.yml
fkr_simple_pie:
    cache_enabled: false
    cache_dir: %kernel.cache_dir%/rss
    cache_duration: 3600
    idna_converter: ~ #default is false

• cache_enabled: [true or false] enables caching for the SimplePie class
• cache_dir: [any dir] setup the caching dir which SimplePie should use
• cache_duration: [secs] setting up caching for number of seconds.
• idna_converter: [true or false] enable the idna converter a Encoder/Decoder for Internationalized Domain Names

For more information about SimplePie's caching please visit the SimplePie wiki.

Usage

To get a configured SimplePie class instance just use the following code

$this->get('fkr_simple_pie.rss');

The service keeps only one instance of SimplePie. If you want to use multiple feeds over your application you have to clone the instance to stop them interfering

$one = clone $this->get('fkr_simple_pie.rss');
$two = clone $this->get('fkr_simple_pie.rss');

Thats all. For the complete api visit the SimplePie api doc.

Licence

Resources/meta/LICENSE