I believe you’ve seen websites and blogs that uses the text-based Feedburner subscriber
count instead of the chicklet. I hope you are not getting the idea the these guys update their feed count manually. Instead, it can be done easily with scripts, and the reason why you want to do is – it gives you total flexibility in terms of design, styling and display.
Step 1
Copy paste the following code into your template, replace feedburner-id with your Feedbuner username. This script will grab you the
feed count in numbers.- //get cool feedburner
count - $whaturl=“http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id”;
- //Initialize the Curl session
- $ch = curl_init();
- //Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
- curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
- //Set the URL
- curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
- //Execute the fetch
- $data = curl_exec($ch);
- //Close
the connection - curl_close($ch);
- $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
- $fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
- //end get cool feedburner
count
Step 2
Paste this anywhere you want and it’ll display a Feedburner
subscriber count in text.- echo $fb;
To style it nicely with your website or blog’s theme, add or and tweak the CSS accordingly.
Disclaimer:
The following requires a basic understanding of where to place php code in your template and works on servers with PHP 5. Also, whenever working with files ALWAYS back them up before modifying them.
How To Get That Feedburner Count As Text Only
Overview
Make a call to the Feedburner API requesting the feedcount for a given burned feed.
