I have a lot of data in an XML file that I need to get out. Currently there is around 1000 pieces of data I need to extract It looks like this
http://pastebin.com/PwfhtbDF
I need to somehow extract just ip="83.42.146.140" out of every one of these. Remember there is around 1000 of these (44000 lines in total). I have tried XML parsing programs but couldn't get it to extract what I want. I was thinking about doing it in PHP somehow.
Any ideas?
Give simpleXML a try. SimpleXML is built into PHP.
This is about it's basic usage (with examples)
$result =~ /\b(\d{1,3}.\d{1,3}.\d{1,3}.\d{1,3})\b/sg);
This is what I ended up using in PHP to grab all the IP's and print them out :). Thanks for all of your help.
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I am trying to build a very simple price comparison script.
Until now, I wrote a code that gets some product xml feeds from shops and with the help of XSLT I create a single-global xml of all those input XMLs. I use the XSLT because the shops have different names for elements.
Now I want to take it one step further and I want to create a search form that will display me the products let's say I have the term "laptop".
I know how to create a form, but I need a coding guidance to understand how to make it to search in my XML file (products.xml) and display let's say the
Thank you
You might want to check out http://php.net/manual/en/class.xmlreader.php
Using that it is pretty easy to navigate through an XML file and grab all the info you need.
EDIT:
On second thought, http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php is a MUCH simpler way to achieve what you're trying to do. Hence the name, I guess ;)
You can use SimpleXML library to parse your xml file. In my opinion SimpleXML is easier to use than xmlreader. Though SimpleXML is introduced on php5.
I am new to php and am asking for some coding help. I have little experience with php and have gone to the php.net site and read couple books to get some ideas on how to perform this task.
There seems to be many functions and I am confused on what would be the best fit. (i.e. fgetcsv, explode(), regex??) for extracting data in the file. THen I would need assistance printing/display this information in orderly fashion.
Here is what I need to do:
import, readin txt file that is
delimited (see sample)
The attributes are not always ordered and some records will have missing attributes.
Dynamically create a web table (html)
to present this data
Sample records:
attribute1=value;attribute2=value;attribute3=value;attribute4=value;
attribute1=value;attribute2=value;attribute4=value;
attribute1=value;attribute2=value;attribute3=value;
How do I go about this? What would be best practice for this? From my research it seems I would create an array? multidimensional? Thank you for your time and insight and i hope my question is clear.
Seems like homework, if so best to tag it as such.
You will want to look into file(), foreach() and explode() given that it is delimited by ;
The number of attributes should not matter if they are missing, but all depends on how you setup the display data. Given that they are missing though, you will need know what is the largest amount of attributes to setup the table correctly and not cause issues.
Best of luck!
i would first use the file() method, which will give you an array with each line as an element. Then a couple of explodes and loops to get through it all,first exploding on ';', then loop through each of these and explode on '='.
I have an XML feed coming in:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><product>
<name>John</name>
<contact_email>john#johnson.com</contact_email>
<contact_telephone>01234 567</contact_telephone>
<url>www.johnsone.com.com</url></product>
I need to get this loaded to MySQL using php - have seen a few examples but all of them take a file saved locally.
My feed is taken from the internet so changes all of the time. Does anybody have any suggestions where to start?
Thanks
First you'll need to define a data model. Then you'll need an xml parser to parse the feed, extract the data and populate your data model. Then you'll need to pass your model object to a DAO which writes the data to your database.
If it's taken from the internet you can just do
<?php
$feedData = file_get_contents('http://mywebsite/myfeed.xml');
?>
if you want to parse the data and store then
create a table for product
parse the xml and get the fields
insert into db or update existing data
so, what's your problem?
To be a bit more specific:
You'll obviously need to set up a table and database structure. I'm going to assume you have, or at least can figure out how to, set this up, and how to write to a database. If not, there are plenty of tutorials on that that should be plenty helpful. You'll need to use PHP's built-in MySQL library.
For parsing the XML you will probably want to use SimpleXML. It's not clear how your feed is coming in, but SimpleXML has the simplexml_load_string function that will let you pass it a string containing an XML document, however you get it, for parsing.
From there, you can just take the parsed XML and write it to your database. Any examples that use SimpleXML with a local file should be pretty easy to adapt using simplexml_load_string instead of simplexml_load_file, and doing whatever you're already (presumably) doing to get the data from this feed.
I want to store the contents of an xml file in the database. Is there an easy way to do it?
Can i write some script that can do the task for me?
The schema of the XML file looks like this:
<schedule start="20100727120000 +0530" stop="20100727160000 +0530" ch_id="0210.CHNAME.in">
<title>Title_info</title>
<date>20100727</date>
<category>cat_02</category>
</schedule>
One thing to note is:
How do I read the start time? I need the time +0530 added to the time?
Thank you so much.
You'll probably want to create a table called schedules that matches your data, then read the contents of the XML file with an XML parser of your choice. SimpleXML might be the right tool for this job.
As for the dates, I recommend you try using the function date_parse_from_format().
look up simple_xml on the php page - off hand I'm not too hot on it, but basically you will end up with a loop which will add your data to an object eg:
$xml
and you will be able to call tags as such $xml->schedule->title $xml->schedule->date and $xml->schedule->category and you will be able to call attributes as such $xml->schedule[start] but you might wanna check that.
I had to do this recently for a client, and this was the best way I could find. The attributes may be tricky - I can't quite remember but you might have to look into namespaces and such... anyway, find simple_xml and you're on the right tracks.
I have an xml feed that I have to check periodically for updates. The xml consists of many elements and I'm looking to figure it out which is the best (and probably faster) way to find out which elements suffered updates from last time I've checked.
What I think of is to check first the lastBuildDate for modifications and if it differs from the previous one to start parse the xml again. This would involve keeping each element with all of its attributes in my database. But each element can have different number of attributes as well as other nested elements. So if it would be to store each element in my database what would be the best way to keep them ?
That's why I'm asking for your help :) Thank you.
Most modern databases will store your XML as a blob if you like. (You tagged PHP... MySQL? If so, use MEDIUMTEXT.) Store your XML and generate a diff when you get a new one. If you don't have an XML diff tool, canonicalize both XML listings then run a text diff.