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joomla xml parser module

Hi,

I've been searching for a while and can't seem to find a way to actually create a joomla 1.6 module (xml parser).
I actually need to retrieve information from this xml: link

fyi only from one of these servers I need to retrieve information, not all of them.

How do I proceed? Also how should I put this in a module for joomla 1.6?

regards

Mutsop

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k so I actually started on my own... but came onto a little problem:

It's the first time I'm trying to build a module for joomla 1.6.
So to ease my work I just copied the basic of the rss feed module.

Now, I'm trying to read an xml file (from an url) and show these information on my website.

So here is the code (I suppose you don't really need the default.php and xml of the options).

mod_xmlreader.php:

<?php
// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die;

// Include the syndicate functions only once
require_once dirname(__FILE__).DS.'helper.php';

$status = modXmlreaderHelper::getStatus($params);
require JModuleHelper::getLayoutPath('mod_xmlreader');

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helper.php:

<?php
// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die;

class modXmlreaderHelper
{
	static function getStatus()
	{
		error_reporting(E_ALL);
		echo "<pre>" . PHP_EOL;

		// TEST DATA FROM THE POST AT EE
		$url = "http://eu.riftgame.com/en/status/eu-status.xml";

		// READ THE EXTERNAL DATA
		$xml = file_get_contents($url);

		// MAKE AN OBJECT
		$obj = SimpleXML_Load_String($xml);

		// ACTIVATE THIS TO SEE THE OBJECT
		// var_dump($obj);

		// PROCESS THE OBJECT ELEMENTS INTO AN ARRAY
		$status = array();
		foreach ($obj->price as $thing)
		{
			array_push($status,(string)$thing);
		}

		// SHOW THE WORK PRODUCT
		print_r($status);
		//return $status;
	}
}

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So as you can see, I'm using a print_r to see the result of my array.
But as my title says, its empty :(

Any ideas why?

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