XML - How to convert an XML feed into resources ?

[[!xmlparser? &source=`http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss` &tpl=`itemTpl`]]

# Snippet to read and parse XML input
# USAGE: [[!xmlparser? &source=`feed.rss` &tpl=`xmlTpl`]]

$source = $scriptProperties['source'];

if (empty($source)) {
    $modx->log(modX::LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG,'[xmlparser] Empty source adress passed, aborting.');
    return '';
}

else {

if ($xml = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents($source))) {

// you might want to uncomment this to have a look into the XML structure
// print_r ($xmlstr);

$output = '';
  // do this for every item inside the "channel" tags
  // change this to i.e. $xml->products->product or whatever your xml looks like
  foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) {
    foreach ($item->children() as $key => $value) {
    // make nice time format for display
    if ($key == 'pubDate') {
     $value = strftime("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S", strtotime($value));
    }
    // put every items elements into placeholders
    $modx->setPlaceholder($key, $value);
    }
    // throw all those placeholders into the chunk
    $output .= $modx->getChunk($scriptProperties['tpl']);
  }
} else {
    exit('Konnte '.$source.' nicht öffnen.');
}

return $output;
}

<h4><a href="[[+link]]" title="[[+title]]">[[+title]]</a></h4>
<p><b>[[+pubDate:default=``]]</b></br>
[[+locationname:default=``]]</br>
[[+eventdate:default=``]][[+description:default=``]]</p>

# Snippet to read and parse XML input
# USAGE: [[!xmlparser? &source=`feed.rss` &tpl=`xmlTpl`]]
 
$source = $scriptProperties['source'];
 
if (empty($source)) {
    $modx->log(modX::LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG,'[xmlparser] Empty source adress passed, aborting.');
    return '';
}
 
else {
 
if ($xml = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents($source))) {
 
// you might want to uncomment this to have a look into the XML structure
// print_r ($xmlstr);
 

  // do this for every item inside the "channel" tags
  // change this to i.e. $xml->products->product or whatever your xml looks like
  foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) {
    // create a new resource
    $doc = $modx->newObject('modResource');
    $doc->set('createdby', $modx->user->get('id'));

    // set the template of new resource which contains all the important TVs
    $doc->set('template', '2');

    // no need to explain this
    $doc->set('hidemenu', '0'); //hide from menu
    $doc->set('published', '1'); //publicate at once

    // set all values for tvs and resource properties
    foreach ($item->children() as $key => $value) {

    // make nice time format for display. German time format in this case.
    // you might have to change this to get along with the MODX database time format  (if you want to have it at all)
    if ($key == 'pubDate') {
     $value = strftime("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S", strtotime($value));
    }

    // create an unique alias from the XML item title
    if($key== 'title'){
      $doc->set('pagetitle', $value);
      //replace spaces with -
      $alias = preg_replace('/[\' \']/' , '-' , $value);
 
      //remove non alpha and a common injection string
      $alias = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9\.\x0B\-]/i' , '' , $alias);
 
                                   //this is the standard revo regexp
                                   // \0\x0B\t\n\r\f\a&=+%#<>"~:`@\?\[\]\{\}\|\^'\
    }
    $doc->set('alias', $alias);

    // save the resource before adding TVs
    $doc->save();

    // put every items elements into their TVs 
    if ($tv = $modx->getObject('modTemplateVar', array ('name'=>$field))) {
        $tv->setValue($doc->get('id'), $value);
        $tv->save();
    }
    }
  }
} else {
    exit('Konnte '.$source.' nicht öffnen.');
}
$modx->cacheManager->refresh();
return true;
}