may be i am going to ask some stupid question but i don't have any idea about php
that's why i want to know it i never worked in php and now i have to do it so please provide me some useful tips,
i have XML file that is coming from a different URL and i want to save it on the server then i have to read it and extract it to a page in proper format and some modification in data.
You can use DOM
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->load('http://www.example.com');
This would load the XML from the remote URL. You can then process it as needed. See my previous answers on various topics using DOM. To save the file to your server after your processed it, you use
$dom->save('filename.xml');
Loading the file with $dom->load() will only work if you have allow_url_fopen enabled in your php.ini. If not, you have to use cURL to download the remote file first.
Maybe this should be helpfull to you: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php
If you're have dificulte to get the XML file from the remote host you can use combine with above simplexml-load-string
$path_to_xml = 'http://some.com/file.xml';
$xml = simplexml_load_string( file_get_content($path_to_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!
Currently I have a PHP file that reads posted XML and then converts/outputs it to JSON. This file looks like this:
<?php
file_put_contents('myxmlfile.xml', file_get_contents('php://input'));
$xmldoc = new DOMDocument();
$xmldoc->load("myxmlfile.xml");
$xpathvar = new DOMXPath($xmldoc);
// Etc etc, for the purpose of my question seeing the rest isn't necessary
// After finishing the conversion I save the file as a JSON file.
file_put_contents('myjsonfile.json', $JSONContent);
?>
The data I'm receiving comes in XML format. To convert it I'm currently saving it as an XML file, and then immediately after creating a new DOMDocument() and loading it in. My question is, is there any way I can cut out the middle man and just load in the XML directly using file_get_contents()?
Ideally it would be this (didn't work):
$xmldoc->load(file_get_contents("php://input"));
If anyone could help me do this I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks
To load from string, instead of filename, use loadXML method.
$xmldoc->loadXML(file_get_contents("php://input"));
I'm having a bit of a problem with reading an XML file (RSS feed). I'm using file_get_contents to read the data, which works fine locally on Xampp, but won't work on my server.
I don't want to have to edit my php.ini file, I'm after a out-of-the-box solution if there is one (I want the code to be as portable as possible).
I am currently doing...
// Load Correct Feed
$feed_url = $this->selectFeed($instance);
$content = file_get_contents($feed_url);
$x = new SimpleXmlElement($content);
I've had a look for solutions (ie. cURL) but can't find a way that will be supported universally.
Please could someone point me in the right direction (if it is even possible)?
what about...
$xml = simplexml_load_file($file);
I'm trying to archive a web base forum that has attachments that users have posted. So far, I made use of the php cURL library to get the individual topics and have been able to save the raw pages. However, I now need to figure out a way to archive the attachments that are located on the site.
Here is the problem: Since the file type is not consistent, I need to find a way to save the files with the correct extension. Note that I plan to rename the file when I save it so that it's organized in a way that it can be easily found later.
The link to the attached files in a page is in the format:
some file.txt
I've already used preg_match() to get the URL's to the attached files. My biggest problem now is now just making sure the fetched file is saved in the correct format.
My question: Is there any way to get the file type efficiently? I'd rather not have to use a regular expression, but I'm not seeing any other way.
Does the server add the correct Content-Type header field when serving the files? You can then intercept that with setting CURLOPT_HEADER or file_get_contents + $http_response_header.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httpresponseheader.php
i would look into
http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.fileinfo.php
to see if you can automatically grab the file type when you get ahold of it.
you can use DOMDocument and DOMXpath to extract urls and filename safely.
$doc=new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($content);
$xpath= new DOMXpath($doc);
//query examples:
foreach($xpath->query('//a') as $node)
echo $node->nodeValue;
foreach($xpath->query('//a/#href') as $node)
echo $node->nodeValue;
I have a lots (500ish) xml files from An old ASP and VBscript that was running on an old windows server. The user could click a link to download the requested xml file, or click a link to view how the xml file will look, once its imported into their system...
If clicked to view the output, this opened a popup window were the xml filename is passed via URL & using the xslt template file this would display the output.
example url = /transform.php?action=transform&xmlProtocol=AC_Audiology.xml
Now were using PHP5 im trying to get something that resembles the same output.
we started looking into xslt_create(); but this is an old function from php4
I'm looking for the best method to deploy this.
The main php page should check & capture the $_GET['xmlProtocol'] value.
pass this to the xslt template page as data;
were it will be output in html.
a general point in the right direction would be great!
You can find the documentation (+examples) of the "new" XSL(T) extension at http://docs.php.net/xsl.
php
// Transform.php
if(isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] == 'transform') {
// obviously you would never trust the input and would validate first
$xml_file = AFunctionValidateAndGetPathToFile($_GET['xmlProtocol']);
// Load up the XML File
$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument;
$xmlDoc->load($xml_file);
// Load up the XSL file
$xslDoc = new DomDocument;
$xslDoc->load("xsl_template_file.xsl");
$xsl = new XSLTProcessor;
$xsl->importStyleSheet($xslDoc);
// apply the transformation
echo $xsl->transformToXml($xmlDoc);
}
I had a similar problem about two years ago. I was using PHP5 but needed to use xslt_create(); or an equivalent. Ultimately, I switched to PHP4.
You can probably set your server to use PHP5 everywhere except for files in a certain folder. I believe that's what I did so I could process XSL files using PHP4 but the majority of the site still used PHP5.
It's possible that things have changed in the last two years and PHP5 has better support for something like xslt_create(); ---- I haven't been following recent changes.
Hope this helps!