In an attempt to enrich the content of my blog, I’ve added a movies tab to the upper part of my navigation. It uses magpie RSS to pull three of my NetFlix feeds onto that page. You can view my most recent rentals, my rentals to come, and the new releases. I use the following code:

function GetRSS($url, $show_author = false, $limit = 10) {
   $path = ABSPATH . "wp-content/plugins/magpie/";
   
   require_once($path . ‘rss_fetch.inc’);   
   $rss = fetch_rss($url);
   if ($rss)
   {
      $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $limit);
      foreach ($items as $item )
      {
         if($show_author){
            echo ‘<li><a href="’.$item['link'].‘">’.$item['title'].‘</a> – ‘.$item['author'].‘</li>’;
         } else{
            echo ‘<li><a href="’.$item['link'].‘">’.$item['title'].‘</a></li>’;
         }
      }
   } else {
      echo ‘<li><strong>Error:</strong> ‘ . magpie_error().‘</li>’;
   }
   // Restore original error reporting value
   @ini_restore(‘error_reporting’);
}

One Response to “Movies Tab Added”

1. orangeguru says:

   12/22/2004 at 6:44 am

   Very cool! You are one smart & gifted dude dude …

   Reply