Here is my code - feel free to shove it onto a server and change and improve on it (it couldn't be much worse to be honest!)...
<?php //Getting an RSS 2 feed into SimpleXML $articles = array(); // step 1: get the feed $blog_url = 'http://furtherfield.org/netbehaviour/feed'; $rawFeed = file_get_contents($blog_url); $xml = new SimpleXmlElement($rawFeed); // step 2: extract the channel metadata $channel = array(); $channel['title'] = $xml->channel->title; $channel['link'] = $xml->channel->link; $channel['description'] = $xml->channel->description; $channel['pubDate'] = $xml->pubDate; $channel['timestamp'] = strtotime($xml->pubDate); $channel['generator'] = $xml->generator; $channel['language'] = $xml->language; // step 3: extract the articles foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) { $article = array(); $article['channel'] = $blog; $article['title'] = $item->title; $article['link'] = $item->link; $article['comments'] = $item->comments; $article['pubDate'] = $item->pubDate; $article['timestamp'] = strtotime($item->pubDate); $article['description'] = (string) trim($item->description); $article['isPermaLink'] = $item->guid['isPermaLink']; // get data held in namespaces $content = $item->children($ns['content']); $dc = $item->children($ns['dc']); $wfw = $item->children($ns['wfw']); $article['creator'] = (string) $dc->creator; foreach ($dc->subject as $subject) $article['subject'][] = (string)$subject; $article['content'] = (string)trim($content->encoded); $article['commentRss'] = $wfw->commentRss; // add this article to the list $articles[$article['timestamp']] = $article; //make an array of all the titles $title_array[] = $article['title']; //how many words in the array? $wordcount = count($title_array); //join all descriptions together into a long string $title_string = join(' ',$title_array); //operations on the RSS //do a character replace- replace the commas, full stops, colons by a space $badChars='@[a-z]*=""@is'; $replacement_character=" ";// replace with blank space $desc_string = preg_replace('/,/', $replacement_character, $desc_string); //echo $desc_string; //explode into an array $title_array = explode(" ", $title_string); //how many words in the array? $wordcount = count($desc_array); //echo $wordcount; $fontsize = rand(0,5)."em"; $color1 = rand (0, 255); $color2 = rand (0, 255); $color3 = rand (0, 255); $angle = rand (0,-90)."deg"; $width= rand (20, 400); $margin - rand (100, 400); $top = rand (-100, -1000); echo"<p style='-moz-transform: rotate($angle); z-index:0;font-size:$fontsize; line-height: 30%; color: $color1; background-color: rgb($color1,$color2,$color3);'>"; echo $title_string; echo "</p>"; echo "<img style = 'z-index:5; margin-left: $margin; margin-top: $top;' src = 'images/burroughs.png' width = $width'>"; echo "<img style = 'z-index:10; margin-left: $margin; margin-top: $top;' src = 'images/cage.png' width = $width'>"; echo "<img style = 'z-index:15; margin-right: $margin; margin-top: $top;' src = 'images/yokoono.png' width = $width'>"; echo "<img style = 'z-index:15; margin-right: $margin; margin-top: $top;' src = 'images/surrealists.png' width = $width'>"; } ?> On 15 March 2015 at 18:50, dave miller <[email protected]> wrote: > hi edward > It's just the furtherfield netbehaviour rss feed - I used php to pull out > the titles and then placed/ coloured/ sized it at random using css. > Have now added some pics of william burroughs, yoko ono, surrealists, and > resized and positioned, again at random. > Glad you like it! > dave > > On 15 March 2015 at 18:30, Edward Picot <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Michael - now that's what I like - a good sweary response. >> >> Dave - I really like that page you've done - I've looked at it several >> times and it comes up different every time - is it scripted in JavaScript >> or something, or is it just CSS, or even just HTML? Looking at the page >> source, it looks like a long and complex single line containing several >> paragraphs, with references to z-index and degree of rotation in each >> paragraph style. >> >> >> - Edward >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > >
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