us_get_tide_info() – Code copied and cobbled from http://snippet.me/wordpress/wordpress-plugin-info-api/ having referred to http://ckon.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/undocumented-wordpress-org-plugin-api/ get XML information using simple xml load file

Description

Code copied and cobbled from http://snippet.me/wordpress/wordpress-plugin-info-api/ having referred to http://ckon.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/undocumented-wordpress-org-plugin-api/ get XML information using simple xml load file

Note There is no error checking here. It can fail for many reasons but it will produce messages when it happens. The most likely causes of failure are:

• $tide_url is not a valid RSS feed – see bw_tideurl_namify()
• server is not connected to the internet
• http://www.tidetimes.org.uk is not responding

Usage

us_get_tide_info( $tide_url );

Parameters

$tide_url

( mixed ) required –

Returns

void

Source

File name: us-tides/shortcodes/us-tides.php
Lines:

function us_get_tide_info( $tide_url ) {
  $request_url = urlencode( $tide_url );
  bw_trace2( $request_url, "request_url", false );
  $response_xml = simplexml_load_file( $request_url );
  bw_trace2( $response_xml );
  return $response_xml;
}
 

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