wordspressed

Parses a Wordpress export file (XML) with PHP, including categories and "post meta" (custom fields).

Created specifically for Wordpress Export XML files as opposed to public feeds.

By chrisullyott.

Basic usage

$file = 'path/to/wordpress_export.xml';
$parser = new WordsPressed($file);
$items = $parser->getItems();

print_r($items[0]);

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [title] => A Simple Post with Text
            [link] => http://dev.site.com/a-simple-post-with-text/
            [pubDate] => Sun, 03 Aug 2018 00:52:26 +0000
            [dc:creator] => admin
            [category] => My Tag
            [category_nicename] => my-tag
            [guid] => http://dev.site.com/wordpress/?p=22
            [guid_isPermaLink] => false
            [description] => Lorem ipsum...
            [content:encoded] => Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
            ...

Also parses postmeta key/value pairs, adding data such as:

[_edit_last] => 1
[_edit_lock] => 1221689350

Customizing Tidy options

You can customize the PHP Tidy configuration to sanitize the file in a particular way before parsing.

$tidyOpts = array(
    'ascii-chars'                 => true,
    'logical-emphasis'            => true,
    'drop-empty-paras'            => true,
    'drop-font-tags'              => true,
    'drop-proprietary-attributes' => true
);

$parser = new WordsPressed($file, $tidyOpts);

For a list of options, see http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html.