Hi Avangelist.

If you take a look at the attachments for the main post you'll see one file called 'talkphp.xml'. This is the file that the code uses. So if you look inside that and then take another look at the code, possibly even run it on your local machine if you can, then I'm sure things will become a little clearer :)

As for your second question, no, you do not need an RSS reader to read a RSS feed, the above code does just that, reads as RSS formatted XML file.