A simple php code to read medium.com xml rss feed and return data (title, content, image, date) into a page

medium-xml-reader.php

<div class="content">
  <h3>MEDIUM POSTS</h3>
  <div class="row">
  <?php
  $xml = simplexml_load_file('https://medium.com/feed/@leowebdev', null, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

  function get_image($handler) { //get image from post body
    preg_match('/src="([^"]*)"/', $handler, $matches);
    return str_replace('/600/200/','/300/150/',$matches[1]); //change image size from 600x200 into 300x150
  }

  $count = 0;
  foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item)
  {
    $title = $item->title;
    $description = $item->description;
    $link = $item->guid; //you can also use $item->link;
    $date = $item->pubDate;

  echo '
          <figure class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-6 ' . (++$count%2 ? "clearfix" : "") . '">
            <a href="'.$link.'" target="_blank">
              <img src="'. get_image($description) .'" alt="'.$title.'" class="img-responsive" />
            </a>
            <figcaption>
              <div class="details">
                <h4>'.$title.'</h4>
                <span>'.$date.'</span>
              </div>
            </figcaption>
          </figure>';
  } ?>
  </div>
</div>