docs/assets/news.php

<?php

    function getFeed($sFeed) {

        $params = array(
            "q" => ('select title,link from rss where url="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/".$sFeed.'""),
            "format" => "json"
        );

        $encoded_params = array();

        foreach ($params as $k => $v) {
            $encoded_params[] = urlencode($k)."=".urlencode($v);
        }

        $url = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?".implode("&", $encoded_params);

        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        $rsp = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);

        if ($rsp !== false) {

            $rsp_obj = json_decode($rsp, true);

            $results = $rsp_obj["query"]["results"]["item"];

            $list = ""; // HTML output

            $nResults = count($results);

            if ($nResults > 10) {
                $nResults = 9;
            }

            for ($i = 0; $i<= $nResults; $i++) {

                $result = $results[$i];

                $list.= <<< END_OF_HTML
                <li>
                    <a href="{$result["link"]}"><q>{$result["title"]}</q></a>
                </li>
END_OF_HTML;

            }

            return ("<ul>" . $list . "</ul>");

        }

    }

?>