I may be over thinking this but are there any extra steps I am missing after reading my XML data into a string and before writing it to a local file?
header('Content-type: text/xml');
//MY URL TO A XML PAGE STYLED WITH XML STYLE SHEET
$url = "http://www.mywebsite.com/somexmlfile.xml";
//SAVE CONTENTS OF PAGE IN XML_DATA
$xml_data = file_get_contents($url);
//REMOVE STYLE SHEET INFO
$search2 = '<?xml-stylesheet href="latest_ob.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>';
$xml_data = str_replace( $search2, "", $xml_data);
//WRITE MY DATA TO A BACKUP FILE AND THEN ECHO TO THE SCREEN FOR A FLASH APP CALLING THE INFO
$myFile = "data_backup.xml";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $xml_data;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
echo $xml_data;
The reason I ask this is when I try opening my backup XML file in Dreamweaver it crashes everytime. I was thinking there could be an encoding issue possible.
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Hi I need to receive a post data which will be in an xml that is encoded in a base64 format.
I'll be receiving this from a payment gateway. Now all i get is this. My code creates a txt file but is empty. Is there anything wrong with the code? The output should be an xml envelope in a text file.
$body = '';
$fh = #fopen('php://input', 'r');
if ($fh)
{
while (!feof($fh))
{
$s = fread($fh, 1024);
echo $s;
if (is_string($s))
{
$body .= $s;
}
}
fclose($fh);
}
$body = base64_decode($body);
$ourFileName = "testFile.txt";
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fclose($ourFileHandle);
$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $body;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
I tried to contact the payment gateway and they are telling me that they are getting this error "The remote server returned an error: (417) Expectation failed." where could the problem exist us or them?
Since your file is returning blank, I would recommend verifying the specifications from the payment gateway for your fopen() function. In addition, if you are properly getting data back from them, then I would check the base64_decode() function. I have seen situations where there may be a header or other data at the top of the actual payload data that fouls up the base64_decode and ruins your day.
It looks like you are mixing up your file handlers, can you see if the following codes run:
$body = $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA;
$ourFileName = "testFile.txt";
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $body;
fwrite($ourFileHandle, $stringData);
fclose($ourFileHandle);
I have just tested the above code myself successfully.
What I suggest you do is trying the following:
Try to put a static piece of data into $body (eg: "$body = 'test';")- and see if that saves - if not then it is an issue at your end.
Delete the file (to remove any permission issues).
Double check the url that the payment gateway is sending to is correct.
I have a little issue while trying to kill time. I am writint to a text file the contents of the filled in form so it is easy to read. At the moment everything gets put int a single line, and therfore I can not tell where msgs begin or end. I wrote a php like this:
$from = $_POST[from];
$friend = $_POST[friend];
$carrier = $_POST[carrier];
$message = stripslashes($_POST[message]);
if ((empty($from)) || (empty($friend)) || (empty($message))) {
header ("Location: sms_error.php");
}
else if ($carrier == "orange_mobile_network") {
$formatted_number = $friend."#orange_mobile_network.co.uk";
mail("$formatted_number", "SMS", "$message");
header ("Location: sms_success.php");
}
Then the SMS/Text message will be sent. After this I wanted to write/store/append the message on a txt file. So I wrote:
$myFile = "sms_Numbers_Mgs.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a+') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $_POST[from];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = $_POST[friend];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = $_POST[message];
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
But like I said. Everything works. I just want to be able to read the file and put everything in a new line and possibly format it nicely for easy reading. I do not want to use a DB for storing the TXT as my host is going to charge me.
change this:
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
with this:
fwrite($fh, $stringData . PHP_EOL);
or:
fwrite($fh, $stringData . "\r\n");
You can append PHP_EOL when you write for a platform aware newline. I.e. $stringData = <string> . PHP_EOL;
If don't need it to be platform aware, going with the windows newline is a safe option.
define('CRLF', "\r\n");
$stringData = <string> . CRLF;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
I do not know exactly Cause you're using. txt instead of a bank, but my tip for this specific case is to work with json format.
Example:
$myFile = "sms_Numbers_Mgs.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a+') or die("can't open file");
//assembles a string of type json
$data = json_encode(array(
'from' => $_POST[from],
'friend' => $_POST[friend],
'message' => $_POST[message]
));
//Write in the file
fwrite($fh, $data);
fclose($fh);
//reads the file
$content = file_get_contents($myFile);
$object = json_decode($content);
var_dump($object);
good it is at least better organized.
a hug!
I have a PHP generated page containing the results of a submitted form, what I would like to do is save this as a .doc file on the server.
After some googling I came across this code which I adapted:-
$myFile = "./dump/".$companyName."/testFile.doc";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "Bobby Bopper\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "Tracy Tanner\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
But the problem with this is that I would have to recreate the results in order to manually write them to the file and it doesn't seem very efficient.
So I continued to google and found the PHP manual which left me scratching my head frankly, however I eventually found this:-
ob_start();
// code to generate page.
$out = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
// or write it to a file.
file_put_contents("./dump/".$companyName."/testFile.doc",$out);
Which will create the file, but doesn't write anything to it. However this seems to be the way to do what (Based on the PHP manual) I want even if I can't get it to work!
Any advice? I don't mind googling if I can figure out a decent search term :)
This sould do it for you:
$cache = 'path/to/your/file';
ob_start();
// your content goes here...
echo "hello !"; // would put hello into your file
$page = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$fd = fopen("$cache", "w");
if ($fd) {
fwrite($fd,$page);
fclose($fd);
}
It's also a great way to cache dynamic pages. Hope it helps.
I want to fetch json script and write it to a txt file undecoded, exactly how it was originally. I do have a script that I use that I am modifying but unsure what to commands to use. This script decodes, which is what I want to advoid.
//Get Age
list($bstat,$bage,$bdata) = explode("\t",check_file('./advise/roadsnow.txt',60*2+15));
//Test Age
if ( $bage > $CacheMaxAge ) {
//echo "The if statement evaluated to true so get new file and reset $bage";
$bage="0";
$file = file_get_contents('http://somesite.jsontxt');
$out = (json_decode($file));
$report = wordwrap($out->mainText, 100, "\n");
//$valid = $out->validTo;
//write the data to a text file called roadsnow.txt
$myFile = "./advise/roadsnow.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $report;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
}
else {
//echo the test evaluated to false; file is not stale so read local cache
//print "we are at the read local cache";
$stringData = file_get_contents("./advise/roadsnow.txt");
}
// if/else is done carry on with processing
//Format file
$data = $stringData
Try this:
// Get JSON Data
$json_data = file_get_contents('http://somesite.jsontxt');
// Write JSON to File
file_put_contents('json_data.txt', $json_data);
I am trying to format visually how my XML file looks when it is output. Right now if you go here and view the source you will see what the file looks like.
The PHP I have that creates the file is: (Note, $links_array is an array of urls)
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
$sitemap = new DOMDocument;
// create root element
$root = $sitemap->createElement("urlset");
$sitemap->appendChild($root);
$root_attr = $sitemap->createAttribute('xmlns');
$root->appendChild($root_attr);
$root_attr_text = $sitemap->createTextNode('http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9');
$root_attr->appendChild($root_attr_text);
foreach($links_array as $http_url){
// create child element
$url = $sitemap->createElement("url");
$root->appendChild($url);
$loc = $sitemap->createElement("loc");
$lastmod = $sitemap->createElement("lastmod");
$changefreq = $sitemap->createElement("changefreq");
$url->appendChild($loc);
$url_text = $sitemap->createTextNode($http_url);
$loc->appendChild($url_text);
$url->appendChild($lastmod);
$lastmod_text = $sitemap->createTextNode(date("Y-m-d"));
$lastmod->appendChild($lastmod_text);
$url->appendChild($changefreq);
$changefreq_text = $sitemap->createTextNode("weekly");
$changefreq->appendChild($changefreq_text);
}
$file = "sitemap.xml";
$fh = fopen($file, 'w') or die("Can't open the sitemap file.");
fwrite($fh, $sitemap->saveXML());
fclose($fh);
}
As you can tell by looking at the source, the file isn't as readable as I would like it to be. Is there any way for me to format the nodes?
Thanks,
Levi
Checkout the formatOutput setting in DOMDocument.
$sitemap->formatOutput = true
not just PHP, there is a stylesheet for XML: XSLT, which can format XML into sth looks good.