I have a php file which generates and echo's XML data.
So basically it shows a XML but it's a PHP file.
I need to read and parse this data.
I've seen this: simplexml_load_file('some.xml'); but in this case I cannot do this as I've got the xml as a php file.
How can I do this?
Just the same way, the file extension doesn't matters (.xml or .php) what it really matters is the actual contents of the file, so if your file have a .php extension but its contents are valid xml then you should have no problem:
simplexml_load_file('somepage.php'); //this is fine
Set mime type to xml header('Content-Type:text/xml');
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I have an url provided by a wholesaler. Url generates xml file which I need to save on my server.
I use PHP - file_get_contents and file_put_contents to do that:
$savepath = "path_to_my_server_folder";
$xmlurl = "http://usistema.eurodigital.lt/newxml/xmlfile.aspx?xml=labas&code=052048048048051057049050048049052";
file_put_contents($savepath.'eurodigital.xml', file_get_contents($xmlurl));
File is generated on my server, but its content is empty. I have no problems with other xml files if I provide direct xml url, but in this situation file is generated by aspx file dynamically. Xml url is actual url I use. When I open xmlurl in browser, xml file gets saved to device.
Can you help me with moving xml to my server? What function should I use? Is it even possible to do that using PHP 5? "allow_url_fopen" is ON.
Thank you in advance!
I m using the php function file_get_contents to parse a php file. But it seems that as soon as it is reading the php tags the file_get_contents is malfunctioning.
I checked the function with a normal text file, its functioning perfectly. But even if it finds php tags in a text file, the file is being half read. How can i find a way to get the full contents.
Is the file local? Or are you trying to get a remote file? How did you check that the content is not read? Echoing it to a browser might trick you because of the < char in <?php
Use htmlspecialchars or <pre> to view the whole text. Or just look at the source of the page.
I ask this because I see only two xml files in a wordpress blog, wlwmanifest.xml and default.xml and neither look like an rss feed. However I do see a php file called feed-rss2.php that looks like an rss feed. Everything I've ever read says that rss feeds have to be xml files. Am I wrong? Can they be php files with xml code inside?
They are just outputting XML code with XML headers. The actual file doesn't have to be an XML file, just the response has to be text/xml and contain XML output. You can do the same for things like CSS files... anything really.
There is no such thing as a file extension in HTTP.
A client requests a URI from a server. The server responds with a Content-Type HTTP header that says what type of file it is sending back, and the file in the HTTP body.
The client doesn't care (and can't know) if the server generated that response by reading a static file, by running a program, or by some other means.
There is no difference to the client between a PHP program that outputs XML and a static XML file.
The RSS Readers would be looking only on the client side, not the server side. In the wordpress installations, the feed-rss2.php is a PHP File, processed by the server, by giving the correct headers in the format:
header("Content-type: text/xml");
So that the readers get to know that it is a XML file and not a PHP file. As Robbo said, the actual file doesn't have to be an XML file, just the response has to be text/xml and contain XML output.
Even the same case with the styles. If you see the wordpress's style.php, it would have something like:
header("Content-type: text/css");
include($theme . "/style.css");
So that, it uses PHP's power to read the appropriate file and display the output in the same URL. Easy isn't it?
I'm trying to echo out an XML File via a PHP File. Like so:
Url visits viewxml.php?id=1
Php open a specific XML file, such as "xmlfile_".$_GET['id'].".xml" and prints it as if they are visiting the xml file itself.
The reason I'm using PHP is to do Session checks to make sure they are allowed to view the xml file.
This is how I am doing this:
header("Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");
// send the saved XML file.
include "xmlfile_".$id.".xml";
Doing this gives me the following GC XML error:
And there is nothing below it.
I have tried different approaches, such as printing it or turning it into a string but then I have problems reading the XML on certain software. I am hoping one of you can help me.
Thanks!
include() will attempt to evaluate the file; if there's something in there that looks like PHP then it will corrupt your results.
Try using readfile instead; this will only output the file contents.
If I open a XML file in PHP and edit part of it, does PHP load whole XML content then edit part of it then save whole content back to the file?
It depends on which XML library you are using, but for most of them: yes, they'll load the entire XML into memory (unless you're using XMLReader or XML Parser), and for writing there is XMLWriter which can output XML in portions which you can manually write to a file, the rest will create the string as a whole and can possibly save that to the file directly, or give you the whole string which you can save to a file yourself.
As for saving to file: there is no way PHP can 'edit' a 'portion' of a file. PHP can append to a file, or rewrite the whole file. There is no mechanism I'm aware of that just edits a portion.