function getFeed($xml_feed) {
global $xml_data, $item_id;
// Open connection to RSS XML file for parsing.
if (function_exists("curl_init"))
{
$feed = curl_init(trim($xml_feed));
curl_setopt($feed, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$raw_data = curl_exec($feed);
curl_close($feed);
}
else
{
$raw_data = @file_get_contents(trim($xml_feed));
}
if (isset($raw_data))
{
$xmlParser = xml_parser_create();
// Set up element handler
xml_set_element_handler( $xmlParser, "startElement", "endElement" );
// Set up character handler
xml_set_character_data_handler( $xmlParser, "charElement" );
// Parse the data
xml_parse( $xmlParser, $raw_data);
// Free xml parser from memory
xml_parser_free( $xmlParser );
}
else
{
$xml_data = array();
}
return $xml_data;
} // end function getFeed
