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www.it-ebooks.infoCHAPTER 20 • WEB SERVICESIf any of the extensions are disabled, take a moment to reconfigure PHP accordingly. If you can’tremember how to do this, refer back to Chapter 2 for instructions. Once reconfigured, be sure to run thecompatibility test again to check your work.Parsing a Feed with SimplePieSimplePie performs the difficult task of parsing the feed for you, making the feed contents available viaan array of objects. All you need to do is use each object’s methods to retrieve select parts of the feed,such as each item’s title, publication date, and body. You can iterate over this array of objects usingstandard PHP constructs such as the foreach statement. Let’s give this functionality a try by parsing theWJGilmore.com RSS feed using an example based on one found on the SimplePie website:01 1617