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    <p>I need some help getting a bank rss feed into my database. I've tried a few things but I just can't seem to get it to work.</p> <p>The rss feed is from <a href="http://www.bankofcanada.ca/stats/assets/rates_rss/noon/en_all.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.bankofcanada.ca/stats/assets/rates_rss/noon/en_all.xml</a></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php //Find and grab needed libraries and files. require_once('proxy_bypass.php'); require_once ('config.php'); $url = $BOCRSS; // Bank of Canada RSS. $rss = @simplexml_load_string(get_file($url)); // Get the rss feed data. if($rss) { foreach($rss-&gt;item as $entry) { //For each RSS item in the rss xml file. $cb = $entry-&gt;children('http://www.cbwiki.net/wiki/index.php/Specification_1.1'); //var_dump($cb); //die(); $code = $entry[targetCurrency]; $curr = $entry[value]; //echo $curr .' '. $code . '&lt;br/&gt;'; //Can be deleted - prints out data. $dbc = mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_password); //Connect to Shares. mysql_select_db($db_name, $dbc); //Select database. $qry = "INSERT INTO $db_table (currencycode,rate) VALUES ('$code', '$curr')"; //Creates the query. if (!$dbc){ die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); // Echo this is the connection to the database can't be made. } if (mysql_query($qry, $dbc)) { echo "Database created"; // Echo this if the RSS feed in placed in the database. } else { echo "Error creating database: " . mysql_error(); //Otherwise say this. } mysql_close($dbc); // Close the database connection. } } else echo "Error with RSS feed"; //Echo error if RSS is unreachable. ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>The two files I have included get me through my university's proxy server and the config holds my mysql database details and urls for the rss feed.</p> <p>The var dump gives me this:</p> <p><em>object(SimpleXMLElement)#63 (1) { ["statistics"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#65 (2) { ["country"]=> string(2) "CA" ["exchangeRate"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#66 (5) { ["value"]=> string(6) "1.0029" ["baseCurrency"]=> string(3) "CAD" ["targetCurrency"]=> string(3) "USD" ["rateType"]=> string(24) "Bank of Canada noon rate" ["observationPeriod"]=> string(25) "2012-02-01T12:15:00-05:00" } } }</em> </p> <p>Now I'm a beginner to PHP so it's probably all wrong. I'm trying to get the 'targetCurrency' and 'value' into my database but all I get is 50+ empty rows. It must mean that the database is being generated but nothing is going in. If anyone can change the code to get it to work, I would be greatly appreciated as I've tried to get it to work but to no avail.</p>
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