A simple RSS Reader with PHP

In the last couple of days, I had the need of creating a simple RSS widget for a project, aggregating several RSS feeds from different sources. As this might be a pretty common request and you might need this in your projects, I’m sharing my script below.
The whole thing is based on the MagpieRSS PHP parser.

1. The simple version

This first version simply reads the RSS feeds from different websites and lists the latest posts for each website.
Feed URIs are defined in an array, so you can easily add as many as you want.
Number of posts per website is also easily editable.

This has support for languages different from English, using UTF-8 encoding, and uses relative dates.

You can see a working example here. more