<?php
class NextgovBridge extends FeedExpander {
const MAINTAINER = 'ORelio';
const NAME = 'Nextgov Bridge';
const URI = 'https://www.nextgov.com/';
const DESCRIPTION = 'USA Federal technology news, best practices, and web 2.0 tools.';
const PARAMETERS = array( array(
'category' => array(
'name' => 'Category',
'type' => 'list',
'values' => array(
'All' => 'all',
'Technology News' => 'technology-news',
'CIO Briefing' => 'cio-briefing',
'Emerging Tech' => 'emerging-tech',
'Cloud' => 'cloud-computing',
'Cybersecurity' => 'cybersecurity',
'Mobile' => 'mobile',
'Health' => 'health',
'Defense' => 'defense',
'Big Data' => 'big-data'
)
));
public function collectData(){
$this->collectExpandableDatas(self::URI . 'rss/' . $this->getInput('category') . '/', 10);
}
protected function parseItem($newsItem){
$item = parent::parseItem($newsItem);
$item['content'] = '';
$namespaces = $newsItem->getNamespaces(true);
if(isset($namespaces['media'])){
$media = $newsItem->children($namespaces['media']);
if(isset($media->content)){
$attributes = $media->content->attributes();
$item['content'] = '<img src="' . $attributes['url'] . '">';
$item['content'] .= $this->extractContent($item['uri']);
return $item;
private function stripWithDelimiters($string, $start, $end){
while (strpos($string, $start) !== false) {
$section_to_remove = substr($string, strpos($string, $start));
$section_to_remove = substr($section_to_remove, 0, strpos($section_to_remove, $end) + strlen($end));
$string = str_replace($section_to_remove, '', $string);
return $string;
private function extractContent($url){
$article = getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($url)
or returnServerError('Could not request Nextgov: ' . $url);
$contents = $article->find('div.wysiwyg', 0)->innertext;
$contents = $this->stripWithDelimiters($contents, '<div class="ad-container">', '</div>');
$contents = $this->stripWithDelimiters($contents, '<div', '</div>'); //ad outer div
return $this->stripWithDelimiters($contents, '<script', '</script>');
$contents = ($article_thumbnail == '' ? '' : '<p><img src="' . $article_thumbnail . '" /></p>')
. '<p><b>'
. $article_subtitle
. '</b></p>'
. trim($contents);