function read($url)
{
$feed = new Feed();
//gets xml from url
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$raw = curl_exec($ch);
$feed->feed_url($url);
$feed->time_to_live(500);
//$feed->save();
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($raw);
$items = array();
foreach ($xml->channel->item as $xml_item) {
//var_dump($xml_item);
$item = new Item();
$item->title((string) $xml_item->title);
$item->body((string) $xml_item->description);
//var_dump($item);
$items[] = $item;
}
$feed->items($items);
$feed->save();
}
