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get_description()

Description

class SimplePie_Item {
	get_description ()
}

Returns the description for the item. Prefers summaries over full content, but will return full content if a summary does not exist. To prefer full content instead, use get_content().

Availability

  • Available since SimplePie 0.8.

Examples

Display the description

$feed = new SimplePie();
$feed->set_feed_url('http://simplepie.org/blog/feed/');
$feed->init();
$feed->handle_content_type();
 
foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item)
{
	echo $item->get_description();
}

See Also


reference/simplepie_item/get_description.txt · Last modified: 2011/03/06 03:56 (external edit)