How read pubdate field using willvincent/feeds plugin? - laravel-5

Question

I use https://github.com/willvincent/feeds for reading rss and with all field I also need to get pubDate field.
iI did not find a method for it(I looked also in source app/library/AppRssImport.php file ) and I made some debugging, so methods
echo '<pre>$RssItem->data[\'child\']::'.print_r($RssItem->data['child'],true).'</pre>';
dd($RssItem->data['child']);
has next output:
$RssItem->data['child']::Array
(
[] => Array
(
[title] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[data] => Man died 'in agony' after stroke amid ambulance delays
[attribs] => Array
(
)
[xml_base] =>
[xml_base_explicit] =>
[xml_lang] =>
)
)
[description] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[data] => Michelle Lane has PTSD and flashbacks of her husband screaming in pain as they went to hospital by car.
[attribs] => Array
(
)
[xml_base] =>
[xml_base_explicit] =>
[xml_lang] =>
)
)
[link] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[data] => https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-46795776
[attribs] => Array
(
)
[xml_base] =>
[xml_base_explicit] =>
[xml_lang] =>
)
)
[guid] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[data] => https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-46795776
[attribs] => Array
(
[] => Array
(
[isPermaLink] => true
)
)
[xml_base] =>
[xml_base_explicit] =>
[xml_lang] =>
)
)
[pubDate] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[data] => Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:02:22 GMT
[attribs] => Array
(
)
[xml_base] =>
[xml_base_explicit] =>
[xml_lang] =>
)
)
)
[http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/] => Array
(
[thumbnail] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[data] =>
[attribs] => Array
(
[] => Array
(
[width] => 1024
[height] => 576
[url] => http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/15CE0/production/_105121398_michelle-tony.jpg
)
)
[xml_base] =>
[xml_base_explicit] =>
[xml_lang] =>
)
)
)
)
and https://imgur.com/a/wTmd9cV
I tried to read value of pubDate field, but failed. This structure was rather strange for me...
Which is right decision ?

Answer 1

You can use the get_date() method to grab the value of pubDate?
https://github.com/willvincent/feeds this plugin is only a wrapper around SimplePie php extension. You can look into SimplePie documentation for all other available methods. http://simplepie.org/api/class-SimplePie_Item.html.
A usable code might be like this. I used laravel, so the first line of grabbing the feed might be different.
$feed = Feeds::make('https://www.example.com/feed/');
$items = $feed->get_items();
foreach( $items as $key => $item ) {
$title = $item->get_title();
$guid = $item->get_id();
$pub_date = $item->get_date();
}