true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 15,
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0',
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => false
]);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}
if(!$data){
$context = stream_context_create([
'http' => ['header' => 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0']
]);
$data = @file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
}
if($data){
file_put_contents($cacheFile,$data);
return $data;
}
return false;
}
function mapCategory($item){
$cats = [];
if(isset($item->category)){
foreach($item->category as $c){
$raw = trim((string)$c);
if($raw==='') continue;
$lc = strtolower($raw);
if(str_contains($lc,'technology')) $cats[]='Tech';
elseif(str_contains($lc,'business')||str_contains($lc,'market')||str_contains($lc,'finance')) $cats[]='Business';
elseif(str_contains($lc,'world')||str_contains($lc,'politic')) $cats[]='World';
elseif(str_contains($lc,'science')) $cats[]='Science';
elseif(str_contains($lc,'health')) $cats[]='Health';
elseif(str_contains($lc,'sport')) $cats[]='Sports';
else $cats[] = ucwords($raw);
}
}
return $cats ?: ['Uncategorized'];
}
function parseFeeds($allFeeds,$dir,$ttl,$selectedCategory){
$items=[];
foreach($allFeeds as $feeds){
foreach($feeds as $f){
$xmlStr = fetchFeed($f,$dir.'/'.md5($f).'.xml',$ttl);
if(!$xmlStr) continue;
$xml=@simplexml_load_string($xmlStr);
if(!$xml) continue;
// Support both RSS and Atom
$entries = $xml->channel->item ?? $xml->entry ?? [];
foreach($entries as $i){
$cat = mapCategory($i);
// do NOT filter here (frontend handles filtering)
// if($selectedCategory !== 'All News' && !in_array($selectedCategory, $cat)) continue;
$link = isset($i->link['href']) ? (string)$i->link['href'] : (string)$i->link;
$desc = isset($i->summary) ? (string)$i->summary : (string)$i->description;
$items[]=[
"title"=>(string)$i->title,
"link"=>$link,
"desc"=>strip_tags($desc),
"date"=>(string)($i->pubDate ?? $i->updated),
"source"=>preg_replace('/^www\./','',parse_url($link,PHP_URL_HOST)),
"categories"=>$cat
];
}
}
}
// fallback if feeds fail
if(empty($items)){
$items[]=[
"title"=>"Feed unavailable",
"link"=>"#",
"desc"=>"RSS feeds could not be loaded. Check hosting or network.",
"date"=>date('r'),
"source"=>"system",
"category"=>"System"
];
}
usort($items,function($a,$b){return strtotime($b['date'])-strtotime($a['date']);});
return $items;
}
if(isset($_GET['api'])){
header('Content-Type: application/json');
$cat=$_GET['cat'] ?? 'All News';
echo json_encode(parseFeeds($FEEDS,$CACHE_DIR,$CACHE_TTL,$cat));
exit;
}
?>
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