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Pull Ghost blog post info from Ghost RSS XML Feed

This library will read an RSS feed from your Ghost blog and return friendly Post objects that you can use to display information about your posts on a PHP page.

Installation

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require jacobbennett/ghostxml.

"require": {
	"jacobbennett/phpghostpost": "dev-master"
}

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update

Finally make sure to place a use statement at the top of your PHP file that will be using the library.

use jacobbennett\phpghostpost\PostCreator;

That’s all. You should now be able to use the PHPGhostPost Library.

Usage

use jacobbennett\phpghostpost\PostCreator;

// Set RSS feed URL
$feedUrl = 'http://youblog.ghost.io/rss/';

// Instantiate a new Post Creator
$PostCreator = new PostCreator($feedUrl);

// Grab and parse the RSS feed into an array of Post objects
$posts = $PostCreator->getPosts();

// Loop through posts and call properties or methods on each
// To display desired information
foreach($posts as $post){
	echo "<h1>" . $post->title . "</h1><br/>";
	echo "Published " . $post->date_ago();
}

Post Object methods and properties

Once you have your array of Post objects returned, here are the methods and properties you can call on each.

Properties

• title - Title of the post
• description - Text of post (stripped of html tags)
• image - URI of first image in post
• link - Permalink to the post
• 'date' - Timestamp of publish date

Methods

• shortDesc($limit) - Return description limited by character count, rounded to end of a word
• date_ago - Return human readable time-ago string