How to Read an RSS Feed with PHP Using SimplePie

If you need to load an RSS feed with the PHP programming language, the open source library SimplePie greatly simplifies the process of pulling in items from a feed to present on a website, store in a database or do something else coooool with the data. There’s a full installation guide for SimplePie but you can skip it with just three steps: Download SimplePie 1.5 . Copy the file autoloader.php and the folder library to a folder that’s accessible from your PHP code.