As a self-described Deaniac, I enjoy reading the Dean For America blog. However, while I can read it on my computer easily, there's been no AvantGo channel, and surfing the web on my Palm phone is somewhat slow and cumbersome. (I know; the world should have my problems.)
However, one can set up a custom channel on AvantGo quite easily, and there are RSS/XML feeds available from the blog. Combine these two things with readily available code to parse the feeds and translate them into HTML, and voila, instant mobile bliss.
So I got this script somewhere. Regrettably, I can't remember where so I can't credit the person or persons who created it, but I'm very grateful to whoever it was.
Anyway, here's the PHP code, modified for the blog. Enjoy!
<html>
<head>
<title>Blog For America</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$xmlfile =
fopen("http://blog.deanforamerica.com/index.xml","r");
if(!$xmlfile)die("cannot open the xml file");
$readfile = fread($xmlfile ,40000);
$searchfile = eregi("<item>(.*)</item>", $readfile ,$arrayreg);
$filechunks = explode("<item>", $arrayreg[0]);
$count = count($filechunks);
for($i=1 ; $i<=$count-1 ;$i++)
{
ereg("<title>(.*)</title>",$filechunks[$i], $title);
ereg("<description>(.*)</description>",$filechunks[$i], $description);
ereg("<link>(.*)</link>",$filechunks[$i], $links);
echo "<p>";
echo "<b>". $title[1]."</b>";
echo "<br />";
#For some reason, the xml feed has this weird CDATA tag in it, which keeps the
#text from displaying properly. The following two lines get rid of it. Hopefully it
#will get fixed soon!
$description[1]=str_replace("<![CDATA[","",$description[1]);
$description[1]=str_replace("]]>","",$description[1]);
echo $description[1];
echo "<a href ='".$links[1]."'\>".$links[1]."</a>";
#I added the following to lines so I could also have a link to the comments for
#each blog entry.
$comments[1]=str_replace(".html",".comments.html",$links[1]);
echo "| <a href='".$comments[1]."'\>Read comments</a>";
echo "</p>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
