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February 10, 2015 15:47
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<?php | |
$rss = new DOMDocument(); | |
#feed info here | |
$rss->load('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml'); | |
$feed = array(); | |
foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) { | |
$item = array ( | |
'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue, | |
#I'm just using the title | |
#'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue, | |
#'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue, | |
#'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue, | |
); | |
array_push($feed, $item); | |
} | |
#number of items to show in the feed | |
$limit = 6; | |
for($x=0;$x<$limit;$x++) { | |
$title = str_replace(' & ', ' & ', $feed[$x]['title']); | |
echo '<strong>'.$title.'</strong> - '; | |
$message = $message . $title." * "; | |
} | |
#send it to the Eduboard | |
exec('sudo kill $(ps aux | grep \'[p]ython.*examples.*.py\' | awk \'{print $2}\')'); | |
exec('sudo python /home/pi/Adafruit_Python_SSD1306/examples/reset.py'); | |
@unlink("reset.dat"); | |
exec('sudo python /home/pi/Adafruit_Python_SSD1306/examples/text.py "'.$message.'" > /dev/null &'); | |
exec('sudo python /home/pi/Adafruit_Python_SSD1306/examples/led.py "1" > /dev/null &'); | |
echo '<html><h1>Message sent!</h1><h2>'.$message.'</h2></html>';break; | |
?> |
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