Publishing RSS description with PHP

[I, Brian]

I'm currently using a script very successfully to publish headlines on a page of my site: http://www.platinax.co.uk/news/extra/

However, I'd like to be able to publish the feed descriptions under the linked headlines.

How could I please modify the following code to publish descriptions as well?

<?php

$xmlfile = file_get_contents ("http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/business/rss091.xml");

if (empty($xmlfile))
			die("failed to connect to xml feed");

preg_match_all("|<item>(.*)</item>|sU", $xmlfile, $items);

$itemlist = array();

foreach ($items[1] as $key => $item)
{
	preg_match("|<title>(.*)</title>|s", $item, $title);
	preg_match("|<link>(.*)</link>|s", $item, $link);

	$itemlist[$key]['title'] = $title[1];
	$itemlist[$key]['link'] = $link[1];

}

// Display all article titles, linking them to the actual story

foreach ($itemlist as $item)
{
	echo '<a href="' . $item['link'] . '">' . $item['title'] . '</a><br>';
}

$xmlfile = "";		    // empty out the xmlfeed variable so that you can test the next one.

?>

I presume the modification would be fairly simple?

By the way - many thanks in advance for reading this.

[hatchet]

Try this

foreach ($items[1] as $key => $item)
{
	preg_match("|<title>(.*)</title>|s", $item, $title);
	preg_match("|<link>(.*)</link>|s", $item, $link);
             preg-match("|<description>(.*)</description>|s", $item, $description);

	$itemlist[$key]['title'] = $title[1];
	$itemlist[$key]['link'] = $link[1];
            $itemlist[$key]['description'] = $description[1];
}

Then in your echo statement use $item['description'] to place the description.

[hatchet]

I guess I'll just finish it off

echo '<a href="' . $item['link'] . '">' . $item['title'] . '</a><br>' . $item['description'] . '<br>';

[I, Brian]

Great hatchet.