JSON Feed to RSS (Problems)

I am having a problem with converting a JSON feed into a RSS feed. I am attempting to do this in a single function, seen below.

I found code on GitHub — but it doesn’t work properly — and I don’t know how to fix it.

In the bottom of the PHP code: echo convert_jsonfeed_to_rss($content)."n"; I am expecting this to print out the RSS XML feed — it doesn’t.

<?php

//Convert JSONfeed to RSS in a single function as a drop in to make adding JSONfeed
//support to an aggregator easier
function convert_jsonfeed_to_rss($content = NULL, $max = NULL)
{
    //Test if the content is actual JSON
    json_decode($content);
    if( json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) return FALSE;

    //Now, is it valid JSONFeed?
    $jsonFeed = json_decode($content, TRUE);
    if (!isset($jsonFeed['version'])) return FALSE;
    if (!isset($jsonFeed['title'])) return FALSE;
    if (!isset($jsonFeed['items'])) return FALSE;

    //Decode the feed to a PHP array
    $jf = json_decode($content, TRUE);

    //Get the latest item publish date to use as the channel pubDate
    $latestDate = 0;
    foreach ($jf['items'] as $item) {
        if (strtotime($item['date_published']) > $latestDate) $latestDate = strtotime($item['date_published']);
    }
    $lastBuildDate = date(DATE_RSS, $latestDate);

    //Create the RSS feed
    $xmlFeed = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"></rss>');
    $xmlFeed->addChild("channel");

    //Required elements
    $xmlFeed->channel->addChild("title", $jf['title']);
    $xmlFeed->channel->addChild("pubDate", $lastBuildDate);
    $xmlFeed->channel->addChild("lastBuildDate", $lastBuildDate);

    //Optional elements
    if (isset($jf['description'])) $xmlFeed->channel->description = $jf['description'];
    if (isset($jf['home_page_url'])) $xmlFeed->channel->link = $jf['home_page_url'];

    //Items
    foreach ($jf['items'] as $item) {
        $newItem = $xmlFeed->channel->addChild('item');

        //Standard stuff
        if (isset($item['id'])) $newItem->addChild('guid', $item['id']);
        if (isset($item['title'])) $newItem->addChild('title', $item['title']);
        if (isset($item['content_text'])) $newItem->addChild('description', $item['content_text']);
        if (isset($item['content_html'])) $newItem->addChild('description', $item['content_html']);
        if (isset($item['date_published'])) $newItem->addChild('pubDate', $item['date_published']);
        if (isset($item['url'])) $newItem->addChild('link', $item['url']);

        //Enclosures?
        if(isset($item['attachments'])) {
            foreach($item['attachments'] as $attachment) {
                $enclosure = $newItem->addChild('enclosure');
                $enclosure['url'] = $attachment['url'];
                $enclosure['type'] = $attachment['mime_type'];
                $enclosure['length'] = $attachment['size_in_bytes'];
            }
        }
    }

    //Make the output pretty
    $dom = new DOMDocument("1.0");
    $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
    $dom->formatOutput = true;
    $dom->loadXML($xmlFeed->asXML());
    return $dom->saveXML();
}


$content = @file_get_contents("http://timetable.manton.org/feed.json");
echo convert_jsonfeed_to_rss($content)."n";

I tried to put the $content variable before the convert_jsonfeed_to_rss function — same problem.

$content = @file_get_contents("http://timetable.manton.org/feed.json");

Answer

The conversion to a DOMDocument at the end seems to be the issue, it objects to a few parts of the document.

A quicker way (and seems to be more reliable in this case) is to just use dom_import_simplexml()

$dom = dom_import_simplexml($xmlFeed)->ownerDocument;
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->formatOutput = true;
return $dom->saveXML();

(from https://stackoverflow.com/a/799792/1213708).

Edit

From your updated code, you aren’t using the hierarchy properly (and probably don’t have errors enabled to show what is not working).

You need something like…

foreach ($jf['data']['feed'] as $item1) {
//      foreach ($item1['feed'] as $item) {

        $item = $item1['article'];