Chris,
I’m having the same issue: I’m trying to access the components under the author tag but can’t seem to figure it out (mind you I’ve been learning this stuff on the fly today but I’m non-the-less experienced with programming languages).
I want to make the name of the author a link… and everything I need is there, however they are children of the <author> tag… For instance
<author>
<name>author name</name>
<uri>their url</uri>
</author>
I can access other parts of the feed…
$item['content'];
// returns content
$item['published'];
// returns the published date
$item['author'];
// returns nothing...
Any insight for these issues?