RSS feed aggregator/combiner in PHP

Having also a second blog, I needed a way to combine the RSS feeds into one, hence, the following code was written (well, modified from this code).

The code uses MagpieRSS to read and FeedCreator to write. Thanks to Scott Hurring for code to grab the RSS feed title.

The code has been tested with my 2 WordPress blogs (view example combined RSS feed). To install, extract and upload the feed directory and modify the settings in index.php.

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Update: 1 April 2009, improved code speed up the slow response of the url_grab_title function.

Update: 3 March 2010, I have further improved the code and made it easier to intergrate into another site.
Refer to this post.

<?php
$TMP_ROOT = "tmp/";
$DOMAIN_NAME = "https://mectile.com/";
$SITE_TITLE = "t";
$SITE_DESRIPTION = "t's blog feeds";
$SITE_AUTHOR = "t";
$RSS_DIR = "../";

$array = array(
"http://xxxxx.com/feed/",
"http://xxxxx.com/feed/"
);
$num = 10;
$showfullfeed = FALSE;

define('MAGPIE_DIR', $RSS_DIR.'feed/');
define('MAGPIE_CACHE_DIR','/'.$TMP_ROOT.'rsscache');

/* include required files */
@require_once(MAGPIE_DIR.'rss_fetch.inc');
@include(MAGPIE_DIR.'feedcreator.class.php');

/* Set RSS properties */
$rss = new UniversalFeedCreator();
$rss->useCached();
$rss->title = $SITE_TITLE;
$rss->description = $SITE_DESRIPTION;
$rss->link = $DOMAIN_NAME;
$rss->syndicationURL = $DOMAIN_NAME."feed/index.php";

$i_temp = 0; //temp i variable
$j_temp = 0; //temp j variable
$total_temp = 0; //temp total number of posts in all rss feeds

$array_count = count($array); //number of rss feeds

/* code to determine which post to display */
for ($i = 0; $i < $array_count; $i++) {
$rss1 = fetch_rss($array[$i]);
if ($rss1) {
$array_temp[$i]['page_title'] = url_grab_title($array[$i]);
$items = array_slice($rss1->items, 0);
$array_temp[$i]['rss_data'] = $items;
$total_temp += count($items);
$array_temp[$i]['rss_pointer'] = 0;
preg_match('@^(?:http://)?([^/]+)@i', $array[$i], $matches);
$array_temp[$i]['site_url'] = $matches[0];
}
}
while ($total_temp <> 0 && $num > 0){// loop while there are remaining posts to process
$date_timestamp_temp = 0; //initialise to 0
for ($i = 0; $i < $array_count; $i++) {
$date_timestamp_temp = max($date_timestamp_temp, $array_temp[$i]['rss_data'][$array_temp[$i]['rss_pointer']]['date_timestamp']); //determine latest post from rss feeds
if ($date_timestamp_temp == $array_temp[$i]['rss_data'][$array_temp[$i]['rss_pointer']]['date_timestamp']) { //latest post is found so save where it came from
$i_temp = $i;
$j_temp = $array_temp[$i]['rss_pointer'];
}
}
$total_temp --; //decrement total remaining posts to process
$num --; //decrement number of posts to display
$array_temp[$i_temp]['rss_pointer'] ++; //increment post index of used post rss

/* code to display post */
$item = $array_temp[$i_temp]['rss_data'][$j_temp];
$href = $item['link'];
$title = $item['title'];
if (!$showfullfeed) {
$desc = $item['description'];
}else{
$desc =  $item['content']['encoded'];
}
$desc .=  '
Copyright © <a href="'.$array_temp[$i_temp]['site_url'].'">'.$array_temp[$i_temp]['page_title'].'</a>.  All Rights Reserved.
';
$pdate = $item['pubdate'];
$item = new FeedItem();
$item->title = $title;
$item->link = $href;
$item->description = $desc;
$item->date = $pdate;
$item->source = $DOMAIN_NAME;
$item->author = $SITE_AUTHOR;
$rss->addItem($item);
}

function url_grab_title($rss_url) {
$contents = file_get_contents($rss_url, TRUE, NULL, 0, 3072);
$contents = preg_replace("/(\n|\r)/", '', $contents);
preg_match('/<title>(.*?)<\/title>/i', $contents, $matches);
return $matches[1];
}

// get your news items from other feed and display back
$rss->saveFeed("RSS2.0", '/'.$TMP_ROOT."rsscache/feed.xml");
?>