How would I produce this manipulating RSS feeds & market data?

[RandomTom]

I have a personal project, which while I've been working on the design, the programming side of things is what I want to get into.

I plan for it to involve dynamic data, such as using RSS feeds from various sources as news headlines. As well as this I want to try and take market data (shares amongst about 5 companies) and keep them updated daily.

What knowledge would I have to have for this? How would I be able to manipulate the RSS feeds/input the market data? I know a little php, and am developing it at the moment.

Giving me anything to google would help, if you want me to be more specific I will, thanks in advance.

 

[Sic]

have a look at the PHP DOM and XPath - it's a bit fiddly the first time you do it, but it gets easier when you realise how it works. I've got a few classes you could use (though they could do with refactoring, they'll show you how stuff works) if you want to take a look, give me a nudge on MSN at some point. Going to bed now, though

 

[RandomTom]

I'll bug you in a couple of days. I basically want to take the RSS news feeds from a few sites, organise them into sections etc. I think the market data and stocks could be difficult as I don't know what I'm looking at.

I've got loads of time so I'll get reading.

 

[Sic]

The one I wrote can deal with any of the main RSS formats (0.9, 1, 2.0 and Atom), but also allows you to add write plugins for different formats. I use it for an RSS reader I started writing then abandoned

 

[Beansprout]

Simplepie!