RSS and PHP

I have this script that a friend wrote for me but I have since lost contact with him and need some help.

The script is designed to take an RSS feed and generate a html file based on the content of that feed.

for example if there is a feed with a title "rss feed today" then it should create a file name rss-feed-today.php.

It seems to work but the only thing it does wrong is that it adds several tabs to the end of the file name e.g "rss-feed-today .php" and then the index page can reference it.

Please can some help with the removal of the spaces.

Regards

Mike

The code is:

<?
error_reporting(0);
$metaTagsHTML ="";
function startElement($parser, $tagName, $attrs) {
global $insideitem, $tag;
if ($insideitem) {
$tag = $tagName;
} elseif (($tagName == "ITEM") || ($tagName == "IMAGE")) {
$insideitem = true;
}
}
function endElement($parser, $tagName) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $iurl,$pubDate, $i, $n, $metaTagsHTML;
if ($i >= $n) {
return;
}
// Display Image elements [Edit markup below to customise output]
if ($tagName == "IMAGE") {
// printf("<div class=\"rss_img\"><a href='%s'>", trim($link));
// printf("<img src='%s' border='0' />", $iurl);
// printf("</a></div>");
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$iurl = "";
$pubDate = "";
$insideitem = false;
}
// Display text CDATA [Edit markup below to customise output]
if ($tagName == "ITEM") {


$tempTitle = htmlspecialchars(trim($title));
$newsHTML = "<?php include('../header.php') ?>
<div align='center'>
<table width='934' border='1'>
<tr>
<td><span class='style1'>$title</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height='104'>
<p>$description</p>
<p class='style2'><a href='$link' class='style2'>Read</a></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<?php include('../footer.php') ?>
";
//print $newsHTML;
$metaTagsHTML = $metaTagsHTML . "<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"".$title ."\">
\r\n";
saveFile($newsHTML,$title,getDir($pubDate),$description);
saveNewsListFile($title,$pubDate);

$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$iurl = "";
$pubDate = "";
$insideitem = false;
$i += 1;
}

}
function characterData($parser, $data) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $iurl, $pubDate;
if ($insideitem) {

switch ($tag) {
case "TITLE":
$title .= $data;
break;
case "DESCRIPTION":
$description .= $data;
break;
case "LINK":
$link .= $data;
break;
case "URL":
$iurl .= $data;
case "PUBDATE":
$pubDate .= $data;
break;
}
}
}
function parse_feed ($url, $num) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $iurl,$pubDate, $i, $n;

$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$iurl = "";
$pubDate = "";
$i = 0;
$n = $num;

// Prepare and create the expat parser.
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
$fp = fopen($url,"r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
$i = 0;
}

function saveFile($str,$fileName,$dir,$dis){
saveIndexFile($str,$fileName,$dir,$dis);
$fp=fopen($dir."/".getValidFileName($fileName).".php","w");
fwrite($fp,$str);
fclose($fp);

}
function saveIndexFile($str,$fileName,$dir,$dis){

$file = fopen("index.txt",'r+');
$arr = array();
$lCount = 0;
$tempStr = "";

while($line = fgets($file)){

if($lCount==0){
$lCount++;
continue;
}

$tempStr= $tempStr . $line;

}

$title = str_replace("\n", "", $fileName);
$disTemp = str_replace("\n", "", $dis);

$tempStr = $tempStr ."\r\n".$dir."/".getValidFileName($fileName).".php:#:" . $title . ":#:" .substr($disTemp,0,70);
fclose($file);
$file2 = fopen("index.txt",'w');

fwrite($file2,$tempStr);
fclose($file2);

}

function saveNewsListFile($title,$date){
$fileName = getValidFileName($title).".php";

$file = fopen(getDir($date)."/newsList.txt",'r+');
$arr = array();
$tempStr = "";
$title = str_replace("\n", "", $title);
$date = str_replace("\n", "", $date);
while($line = fgets($file)){

$teampArray = split(":#:",$line);

if($teampArray[0]==$title)
continue;

$tempStr= $tempStr . $line;

}

$tempStr = $tempStr ."\r\n".$title.":#:" . $fileName . ":#:" . $date;

fclose($file);
$file2 = fopen(getDir($date)."/newsList.txt",'w');

fwrite($file2,$tempStr);
fclose($file2);

}

function getValidFileName($fileName){
$fileName = str_replace(" ", "-", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace(".", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace(":", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace(";", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("/", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("\\", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("*", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("<", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace(">", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace(",", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("\n", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("'", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("\"", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("?", "", $fileName);

return $fileName;

}
function getDir($dateStr){
$date = strtotime($dateStr,8);
return date("F",$date);
}
function saveSchedul( $url ){
$date = date("d/m/Y");

$new = true;


if($url!=""){

$file = fopen("schedul.txt",'r+');
while($line = fgets($file)){

$teampArray = split(":#:",$line);
$teampArray[1] = str_replace("\r\n", "", $teampArray[1]);

if($teampArray[1]==$url){
$new = false;
}
}

fclose($file);


if($new){
$fname = "schedul.txt";
$fhandle = fopen($fname,"r");
$content = fread($fhandle,filesize($fname));
$content = $content . $date.":#:".$url ."\r\n";
$fhandle = fopen($fname,"w");
fwrite($fhandle,$content);
fclose($fhandle);
}


}


}
//print $today = date("d/m/y"); ;
function checkSchedul(){
global $metaTagsHTML;
$file = fopen("schedul.txt",'r+');
$arr = array();
$tempStr = "";
$currDate = date("d/m/Y");

while($line = fgets($file)){

$teampArray = split(":#:",$line);

if($teampArray[0]!="\r\n" && compareDate ($currDate,$teampArray[0])>0){
$tempStr = $tempStr . $currDate . ":#:" . $teampArray[1];
$teampArray[1] = str_replace("\r\n", "", $teampArray[1]);
parse_feed ($teampArray[1],25);

continue;
}



$tempStr= $tempStr . $line;

}

$file2 = fopen("schedul.txt",'w');

fwrite($file2,$tempStr);
fclose($file2);
fclose($file);
if($metaTagsHTML!="" && $metaTagsHTML!=null){
saveMetaTags();
}


}
function compareDate ($i_sFirstDate, $i_sSecondDate)
{
//Break the Date strings into seperate components
$arrFirstDate = explode ("/", $i_sFirstDate);
$arrSecondDate = explode ("/", $i_sSecondDate);

$intFirstDay = $arrFirstDate[0];
$intFirstMonth = $arrFirstDate[1];
$intFirstYear = $arrFirstDate[2];

$intSecondDay = $arrSecondDate[0];
$intSecondMonth = $arrSecondDate[1];
$intSecondYear = $arrSecondDate[2];


// Calculate the diference of the two dates and return the number of days.


$intDate1Jul = gregoriantojd($intFirstMonth, $intFirstDay, $intFirstYear);
$intDate2Jul = gregoriantojd($intSecondMonth, $intSecondDay, $intSecondYear);

return $intDate1Jul - $intDate2Jul;

}//end Compare Date

function getValidDisName($fileName){

$fileName = str_replace("/", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace("\\", "", $fileName);

$fileName = str_replace("<", "", $fileName);
$fileName = str_replace(">", "", $fileName);

$fileName = str_replace("\n", "", $fileName);

$fileName = str_replace("\"", "", $fileName);

return $fileName;

}
function getIndexNews(){
$file = fopen("index.txt",'r');
$arr = array();
while($line = fgets($file)){
$teampArray = split(":#:",$line);
echo " <p align='left'><a href='".$teampArray[0]."'>".$teampArray[1]."</a>
<br />
".getValidDisName($teampArray[2])."...
</p>";

}
fclose($file);
}
function saveMetaTags(){
global $metaTagsHTML;


$file = fopen("header.php",'r+');
$arr = array();
$tempStr = "";
$flag = 0;

while($line = fgets($file)){

if($line=="<!--SEOStart-->\r\n"){
$flag = 1;

}

if($line=="<!--SEOEnd-->\r\n")
$flag = 2;

if($flag==0){
$tempStr= $tempStr . $line;

}
if($flag==2){
$tempStr= $tempStr . "<!--SEOStart-->\r\n" . $metaTagsHTML . "<!--SEOEnd-->\r\n";
$flag=0;
}

}
$file2 = fopen("header.php",'w');

fwrite($file2,$tempStr);
fclose($file2);
fclose($file);

}
?>

Here is the link in action

http://singles247.co.uk/dating_news/

The two links on this page should link to the file it created however the files the script actually created are named the same but with the extra tabs so cant be accessed.

I can rename the file manually and then they display correctly

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