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(){ function ExtractFromDelimiters($string, $start, $end) { if (strpos($string, $start) !== false) { $section_retrieved = substr($string, strpos($string, $start) + strlen($start)); $section_retrieved = substr($section_retrieved, 0, strpos($section_retrieved, $end)); return $section_retrieved; } return false; } function StripWithDelimiters($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; } $category = $this->getInput('category'); if (empty($category)) $category = 'all'; if ($category !== preg_replace('/[^a-z-]+/', '', $category) || strlen($category > 32)) $this->returnClientError('Invalid "category" parameter.'); $url = $this->getURI().'rss/'.$category.'/'; $html = $this->getSimpleHTMLDOM($url) or $this->returnServerError('Could not request Nextgov: '.$url); $limit = 0; foreach ($html->find('item') as $element) { if ($limit < 10) { $article_url = ExtractFromDelimiters($element->innertext, '', ''); $article_author = ExtractFromDelimiters($element->innertext, 'dc/elements/1.1/">', ''); $article_title = $element->find('title', 0)->plaintext; $article_subtitle = $element->find('description', 0)->plaintext; $article_timestamp = strtotime($element->find('pubDate', 0)->plaintext); $article_thumbnail = ExtractFromDelimiters($element->innertext, 'getSimpleHTMLDOM($article_url) or $this->returnServerError('Could not request Nextgov: '.$article_url); $contents = $article->find('div.wysiwyg', 0)->innertext; $contents = StripWithDelimiters($contents, '
', '
'); $contents = StripWithDelimiters($contents, ''); //ad outer div $contents = StripWithDelimiters($contents, ''); $contents = ($article_thumbnail == '' ? '' : '

') .'

'.$article_subtitle.'

' .trim($contents); $item = array(); $item['uri'] = $article_url; $item['title'] = $article_title; $item['author'] = $article_author; $item['timestamp'] = $article_timestamp; $item['content'] = $contents; $this->items[] = $item; $limit++; } } } }