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It works! I was a bit annoyed that the wordpress atom feed<\/a> was\u00a0only<\/strong> XML based. However, I do consider myself pretty good at googling things, and so I found this PHP library called “SimpleXML<\/a>” which solved a LOT of stuff for me.<\/p>\n

I used to display the first five Blogger titles on the homepage<\/a> in a simple list with links. It was great. I could pass in a “format”=>”json”<\/span>\u00a0 array in the post request and get the page contents through php-curl<\/a>. Now with the migration, that functionality partially broke.<\/p>\n

Not only did I have to change the URL for the blog feed, but I could not get a json table out of it. And thus, it was necessary to find something that could easily parse the standard XML.<\/p>\n

My solution was:<\/p>\n

$response = preg_replace(\"\/<!\\[CDATA\\[(.*)\\]\\]>\/\",\"$1\",curl_get(\"https:\/\/website\/blog\/feed\/atom\"));\r\n$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);\r\n$json = json_encode($xml);\r\n$js = json_decode($json,TRUE);<\/pre>\n
Now you may think this a little overly complex, especially since I’m taking one array ($xml) and encoding it into a json string, and then back out to a second array. However, simplexml decided to make these library-specific object types which I was not able to reference from just straight PHP. So the double conversion is necessary. (I mean, try it. Run echo “<pre>”; print_r($xml); echo “<\/pre>”<\/span>\u00a0 and see what YOU get!)<\/p>\n
Plus that cdata stuff was really getting in the way as far as screwing around with the actual text of each feed item. I found this link from coderwal<\/a>l that explained the preg_match thing nicely for this situation, and it worked outright.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it works, and although the amount of data I get out is quite mind-blowing, I only want titles and link URLs, so my code has remained quite short on the front page!<\/p>\n
Oh, and by the way, the website now has a favicon.<\/p>\n
Plus I went through both WordPress Redirection logs AND Google Webmaster Tools 404 logs and found a bunch<\/strong> of stuff that Google had indexed from Blogger which was generating 404s in WordPress. I think everything is cleaned up (only two or so legitimate permalinks were broken; the rest were stupid GET variables that WP wasn’t ignoring and other things like search pages).<\/p>\n
But I’ll give it a few days and see if anything else crops up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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