importFromXML

<?php

$parent = 156; //parent to put the new pages under
$published = 1; //published? 0 or 1
$hidemenu = 0; //hidemenu? 0 or 1
$template = 11; // template that you like to use for page 
$newsdateId = 7; //newsdate tv id
$rssfeed = 'http://www.BLABLABLA.co.uk/index.php?id=68'; //put your feed here
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load($rssfeed);
if ($doc) {
    $arrFeeds = array();
    foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
        $itemRSS = array(
            'pagetitle' => addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('pagetitle')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'longtitle' => addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('longtitle')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'description' => addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'alias' => trim($node->getElementsByTagName('alias')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'introtext' => addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('introtext')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'menutitle' => addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('menutitle')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'createdon' => addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('createdon')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'pub_date' => addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('pub_date')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'content' => addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('content')->item(0)->nodeValue),
            'parent' => $parent,
            'published' => $published,
            'hidemenu' => $hidemenu,
            'template' => $template
        );

        if (!empty($newsdate)) {
            $newsdate = $modx->toDateFormat(addslashes($node->getElementsByTagName('newsdate')->item(0)->nodeValue));
        } else {
            $newsdate = $modx->toDateFormat($itemRSS['pub_date']);
        }

        $tvs = array(
            $newsdateId => $newsdate
        );

        // check if item is already in database
        if (dimCheckDate($itemRSS['createdon']) == 0) {
            // insert item into database
            insert_Item($itemRSS, $tvs);
        }
    }

// an atempt to clear the cache I think that it does not realy works I need to clear cache by hand to see the pages online
    $modx->clearCache();
    return;
} else {

    return '';
}

//function to put the data into the database
function insert_Item($itemArray, $tvs) {
    global $modx;
    $table_name = $modx->getFullTableName('site_content');
    $modx->db->insert($itemArray, $table_name);
    $doc_id = $modx->db->getInsertId();
    echo $doc_id;
    foreach ($tvs as $tv_id => $tv) {
        $insert = array(
            'tmplvarid' => $tv_id
            , 'contentid' => $doc_id
            , 'value' => $tv
        );
        $modx->db->insert($insert, $modx->getFullTableName('site_tmplvar_contentvalues'));
    }
}

//check date, so that no double entry's are made in the database
function dimCheckDate($pubDate) {
    global $modx;
    $res = $modx->db->select("createdon", $modx->getFullTableName('site_content'), "createdon='" . $pubDate . "'");
    if (count($modx->db->makeArray($res)) > 0) {
        return 1;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}

// function to get text inside tags to create a introtext  or somthing from the first part (in my case it wass in <strong> tags
function getTextBetweenTags($string, $tagname) {
    $pattern = "/<$tagname>(.*?)<\/$tagname>/";
    preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches);
    return $matches[1];
}
?>