XML Feeds

**theGman** · 10 August 2015, 7:02 am

I am having difficulty working out how to get Progressive Jackpot XML Feeds working. I am not a techie but do understand how things work on a WP site and love learning.

Can someone help out with this. Even if it is to point me in the direction of a tutorial. I just absolutely have no idea on where to start and after looking at various plug ins, they do not seem to do what i want.

**oddsguy** · 10 August 2015, 9:50 am

If you're using WordPress then you are going to need to write some custom PHP. You mention that you're not a techie, if you have zero PHP experience then it might be best to get someone else to do it for you.

If however you know some PHP but don't know where to start or simply want to learn, then take a look at this to get you started: https://php.net/manual/en/function.si...oad-string.php

There are loads of tutorials/examples on the web to help you, have a search if you're keen to do it yourself.

**theGman** · 11 August 2015, 1:56 am

Thanks for the advice OddsGuy - I have a little experience , very little on PHP and would like to learn , so am going to attempt it first before seeking an outside solution. Thanks for the pointer

**Miles_FTA** · 11 August 2015, 1:59 am

HI You should also contact the Affiliate Rep that gave you those feeds they should be bale to give you the correct advice on how to add these without too much hassle

**salsero** · 11 August 2015, 7:09 am

Parsing XML is usually quite easy, but it depends on the file's structure. Have a look here:
https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-to...-xml-with-php5

You should get some documentation from the provider of the feed. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what's going on there.

**dfiocch** · 11 August 2015, 7:21 am

Yep. Definitively. You need to write some custom PHP to parse Jackopt feeds.
If you want to just "read and show" the actual value of a Jackpot then just some lines of codes and you're fine.
If you want to build a more complex "Jackpot Database" to show avevanced stats (i.e. last hits, last hit value etc...) you need to go to "advanced mode": more PHP, a database (maybe MariaDB, MySQL or so on) and... math

**theGman** · 12 August 2015, 5:03 am

Thanks for the advice - much appreciated , am looking into this at the moment , and will hopefully get my head around it or get my wallet out

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