Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, and Screencasts

There are all sorts of cool things you can do with SimplePie and feeds. These are some of the most popular code snippets and samples we've come across. Feel free to add your own, but if there's a similar one to what you're wanting to post, please see if you can merge your notes into the one that already exists.

These are tutorials about how to do things. For questions or issues that are frequently asked about SimplePie, check the Frequently Asked Questions page. If you're looking for some cool sites and tools to inspire you, check out the Sites that have integrated SimplePie page.

If you would like to see a tutorial for something here, add the title (in the same format as the other tutorial links) to the requested_tutorials section.

Screencasts are either QuickTime 7 files (compressed as H.264/AAC) or are Flash Video (.flv), and may be wider than a 1024×768 screen resolution. Assumes that you have gotten through the Introduction to PHP tutorial (as noted in the minimum requirements), and understand that a feed has information associated with it, and a feed contains one or more items which also have information associated with them.

• Introduction to SimplePie (10:56)
  This screencast by Ryan Parman discusses the creation of a simple page, feed auto-discovery, mashing and sorting multiple feeds by time and date, favicons, and PHP5 method chaining.
• Creating the Digg SimplePie Add-on (22:13)
  This screencast by Ryan Parman discusses the creation of SimplePie Add-ons including extending and overriding the built-in SimplePie classes. Uses Digg's custom RSS tags as the application of this Add-on.
• Integrate SimplePie and CodeIgniter (23:40)
  This screencast by Elliot Haughin discusses how to integrate SimplePie into your CodeIgniter projects.
• Add SimplePie to Firefox 2 (0:30)
  This 30-second “screen spot” by Ryan Parman shows how easy it is to add SimplePie as the default feed handler in Firefox 2.
• Quick Tip #16 Super SimplePie! (3:49)
  This short video by Niki Brown shows how easy it can be to drop SimplePie directly into your existing pages.
• CSS-Tricks: Adding RSS content with SimplePie (33:03)
  In this screencast by Chris Coyier, we build a really simple site that grabs content from multiple RSS feeds, smushes them together, and displays them using our own custom markup.
• NETTUTS: Extending SimplePie to Parse Unique RSS Feeds (40:10)
  Jeffrey Way takes the time to show us how to extend SimplePie's abilities, build a page of thumbnails and videos, and wrap it up in a slick jQuery-based UI.
• How to Build a Super Duper News Scroller

• Leaderboard
• Filter posts by keywords
• How to display a single item in a feed
• This demo shows how to use SimplePie and a flat file database to display previous feed items like Google Reader
• How to Update and Display RSS Feeds or ATOM Feeds Without Re-Loading the Web Page Using AJAX and SimplePie
• How to speed up SimplePie: SimplePie Accelerator
• Create a Slick Flickr Gallery with SimplePie
• How To Realize A News Aggregator Using Simple Pie In An Adaptive Layout
• How to Create a Lifestream of Your Online Activities
• Easy feed reading with SimplePie
• Simple Activity Streaming with SimplePie
• A collection of beginner SimplePie tutorials.
• LifeStreaming Is Simple As Pie
• Building a Better Blogroll: Dynamic Fun with SimplePie and jQuery
• Build A Simple Online Feed-reader With SimplePie, jQuery and PHP
• Selectable RSS with SimplePie and jQuery

• Only display items from the last 24 hours
• Changing timezones in a timestamp
• Translate timestamps into another language
• Use Relative Dates
• How to group multiple posts by day
• Date-based CSS class

• Sort multiple feeds by time and date
• NewsBlocks Demo 2.0
• Limit the number of items per feed to be used with Multifeeds
• Generate a new feed using SimplePie's multifeed support
• Building your own Alltop or PopURLs
• Build your own popurls-like news aggregator using wordpress theme

• Grab custom tags or attributes
• How do I get a thumbnail from a YouTube feed?
• Only display images from a feed
• Flickr Lightbox
• Google Calendar on your website
• Flickr Photo Feeds mit SimplePie überwachen (German)

• How to do item paging
• Shorten titles and descriptions
• How to edit part of the feed before parsing it
• How to make description links open in a new window
• Sorting by custom criteria instead of date
• Setting up a cron job for SimplePie and SimplePie Plugin for Wordpress

• Integrate SimplePie with 68 Classifieds
• Integrate SimplePie and CodeIgniter
• CodeIgniter + SimplePie: Like peas and carrots
• SmartyPie: Feeding the Smarty PHP Template Engine with SimplePie

• Read my GMail / Check new mail
• feel free to add more!

How do you this feed horizontal using the rss images for wordpress?? how to add mysql database caching ?