rss-bridge/bridges/TheHackerNewsBridge.php

<?php
class TheHackerNewsBridge extends BridgeAbstract {

	const MAINTAINER = 'ORelio';
	const NAME = 'The Hacker News Bridge';
	const URI = 'https://thehackernews.com/';
	const DESCRIPTION = 'Cyber Security, Hacking, Technology News.';

	public function collectData(){

		function stripWithDelimiters($string, $start, $end){
			while(strpos($string, $start) !== false) {
				$section_to_remove = substr($string, strpos($string, $start));
				$section_to_remove = substr($section_to_remove, 0, strpos($section_to_remove, $end) + strlen($end));
				$string = str_replace($section_to_remove, '', $string);
			}

			return $string;
		}

		function stripRecursiveHtmlSection($string, $tag_name, $tag_start){
			$open_tag = '<' . $tag_name;
			$close_tag = '</' . $tag_name . '>';
			$close_tag_length = strlen($close_tag);
			if(strpos($tag_start, $open_tag) === 0) {
				while(strpos($string, $tag_start) !== false) {
					$max_recursion = 100;
					$section_to_remove = null;
					$section_start = strpos($string, $tag_start);
					$search_offset = $section_start;
					do {
						$max_recursion--;
						$section_end = strpos($string, $close_tag, $search_offset);
						$search_offset = $section_end + $close_tag_length;
						$section_to_remove = substr(
							$string,
							$section_start,
							$section_end - $section_start + $close_tag_length
						);

						$open_tag_count = substr_count($section_to_remove, $open_tag);
						$close_tag_count = substr_count($section_to_remove, $close_tag);
					} while($open_tag_count > $close_tag_count && $max_recursion > 0);
					$string = str_replace($section_to_remove, '', $string);
				}
			}
			return $string;
		}

		$html = getSimpleHTMLDOM($this->getURI())
			or returnServerError('Could not request TheHackerNews: ' . $this->getURI());
		$limit = 0;

		foreach($html->find('article') as $element) {
			if($limit < 5) {

				$article_url = $element->find('a.entry-title', 0)->href;
				$article_author = trim($element->find('span.vcard', 0)->plaintext);
				$article_title = $element->find('a.entry-title', 0)->plaintext;
				$article_timestamp = strtotime($element->find('span.updated', 0)->plaintext);
				$article = getSimpleHTMLDOM($article_url)
					or returnServerError('Could not request TheHackerNews: ' . $article_url);

				$contents = $article->find('div.articlebodyonly', 0)->innertext;
				$contents = stripRecursiveHtmlSection($contents, 'div', '<div class=\'clear\'');
				$contents = stripWithDelimiters($contents, '<script', '</script>');

				$item = array();
				$item['uri'] = $article_url;
				$item['title'] = $article_title;
				$item['author'] = $article_author;
				$item['timestamp'] = $article_timestamp;
				$item['content'] = trim($contents);
				$this->items[] = $item;
				$limit++;
			}
		}

	}
}