How can I convert PHP Code Sniffer XML report into HTML? - php

Can you suggest some method of converting PHP Code Sniffer XML report into HTML page(s). I guess I might need some XSLT translation… Thanks in advance for the advice.

Few days ago I posted XSLT stylesheet on my blog: http://phpdojo.blogspot.com/2010/12/converting-phpcodesniffer-xml-report.html including new type of report: xsl.

Just to add: If you run phpcs through Jenkins, then you can output the report in 'checkstyle' format.
phpcs --report=checkstyle --report-file=/phpcs/out.xml
Then configure your Jenkins job to parse the output using that file.
Here's the plugin:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Checkstyle+Plugin
Here's some output samples:

XSLT is quite cumbersome to write, very few people I know can do it well; you can instead parse the XML in a PHP script and spit out HTML.
CodeSniffer can also output its report as a CSV file - if that's easier for you to parse, use that instead.

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PHP - Syntax of exec() function to call another php file

This question is in reference to:
Free (preferably) PHP RTF to HTML converter?
I'm trying to execute that last line of code in my php:
exec(rtf2htm file.rtf file.html)
I understand what parameters need to go within the parentheses, I just do not know how to write it. I've looked at multiple examples along with the php documentation and still I remain confused, so could someone show me how it is written? rtf2htm refers to a PHP file which converts RTF to HTML.
Ultimately what I am trying to do is convert the content of numerous RTF docs to HTML, maintaining the formatting, while not creating tags such as<head> or <body> which programs like Word or TextEdit generate when converting to HTML.
rtf2htm is not a php script, it is a program installed on the server. exec() is used to call external applications.
EDIT: After looking up this script, it seems that it is indeed a php script. But it has been coded to be usable from the command line only.
This should work:
<?php
exec('php /path/to/rtf2htm /path/to/source.rtf /path/to/output.html');
?>

How to convert HTML into XHTML [duplicate]

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PHP library for converting HTML4 to XHTML?
Is there any ready made function in PHP to achieve this? Basically I'm taking HTML data from Smarty template and want to convert it into XHTML through coding.
$filename = 'template.php'; // filepath to file
// All options : http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html
$options = array('output-xhtml' => true, 'clean' => true, 'wrap-php' => true);
$tidy = new tidy(); // create new instance of Tidy
$tidy->parseFile($filename, $options); // open file
$tidy->cleanRepair(); // process with specified options
copy($filename, $filename . '.bak'); // backup current file
file_put_contents($filename, $tidy); // overwrite current file with XHTML version
I don't have a Smarty template file to test this on, but give it a try and see if it works correctly in converting one. Backup your files as always when running something of this nature. Test out on sample files first.
The problem is that you do not have an html file to work with. You have a php template written in the programming language "smarty" that is not markup, even though it contains blocks of markup. You're looking for a magic wand and no such wand exists.
If it was purely html, then you could probably use Domdocument to read the files into a Dom structure and generate xhtml, but that is simply not going to work with the pure source files, although you could potentially write a parser to read the smarty tpl files, look for the html snippets and try and load them into Domdocument objects.
With that said, I have to ask first -- why you really want to convert to xhtml when xhtml is basically a failed standard that is obsolete at this point in time, and secondarily, if you have some legitimate reason for wanting to forge ahead, why you can't use some regex search and replace snippets that change the doctypes and some regex based searches to look for tags that lack the end tags, and the other relatively minor tweaks needed. The differences between html and xhtml can be boiled down to a handful of rules that are pretty easy to understand.
In answer to your original question: sort of. Core PHP -> DOM, SimpleXML, SPL = templating engine. That's why (and how) templating engines such as Smarty exist.
Re: installing Tidy as suggested in comments,
Tidy has a prerequisite lib. If you don't already have it:
http://php.net/manual/en/tidy.installation.php
To use Tidy, you will need libtidy installed, available on the tidy homepage »
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/.
To enable, you will need to recompile PHP and include it in your config flags:
"This extension is bundled with PHP 5 and greater, and is installed
using the --with-tidy configure option."
So, get your existing config flags:
php -i | grep config
and add --with-tidy.
However, this is probably the wrong approach. It does not solve your actual problem (outputting XHTML instead of HTML) - it fixes Smarty's problem. Recompiling PHP to add an extension so you can use it to fix a templating engine's doctype shortcomings probably means you should consider using a different templating engine, if possible. That's sort of drastic (and adds a lot of overhead for what you get, which amounts to for a hacky non-solution bandaid workaround retroactively repairing broken output.)
PEAR's HTML_Template_PHPTAL is probably the best solution to your problem, and the closest answer to your original question.
And if PHPTAL doesn't quite cut it, there are at least 5 others available as PEAR libs to choose from.
pear install http://phptal.org/latest.tar.gz
Or it's been ported to Git:
git clone git://github.com/pornel/PHPTAL
A cursory google search: http://webification.com/best-php-template-engines
HTH

Parsing PCAP file into XML file using Perl

I'm trying to get Perl to read an offline pcap file and save the output into XML file so I can work with it in PHP.
I can't use PHP because its not my server but I can Perl. So my aim is to convert the PCAP file into XML so I have fun with it.
I have no idea where to start and have looked at the Perl Net::Pcap but I just don't understand the language.
Any ideas on what I should do?
Thank-you
Paul
Using Net::Pcap is a decent idea, although figuring out the format you'd want to write out the capture in doesn't seem all that easy. My favourite solution would be to use tshark (the command line version of wireshark) like so:
tshark -r $dmp_filename -Tpsml
This would give you the output in a XML standard format.
Of course if you don't have tshark, not very helpful...

Dealing with XML in PHP

I'm currently working a project that has me working with XML a lot. I have to take an XML response and decrypt each text node and then do various tasks with the data. The problem I'm having is taking the response and processing each text node. Originally I was using the XMLToArray library, and that worked fine I would change the XML into an array and then loop through the array and decrypt the values. However some of the XML response I'm dealing with have repeated tags and the XMLToArray library will only return the last values.
Is there a good way that I can take an XML response and process all the text nodes and easily putting the values into an array that has a similar structure to the response?
Thanks in advance.
I would use SimpleXML.
Here's a small example of using it. It loads and parses XML from http://www.w3schools.com/xml/plant_catalog.xml and then outputs values of "COMMON" and "PRICE" tags of each "PLANT" tag.
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://www.w3schools.com/xml/plant_catalog.xml');
foreach ( $xml->PLANT as $plantNode ) {
echo $plantNode->COMMON, ' - ', $plantNode->PRICE, "\n";
}
If you have any problems with adapting it to your needs, just give an example of your XML so that we can help with it.
All those XML to array libraries are a remain of the times where PHP 4 would force you to write your own XML parser almost from scratch. In recent PHP versions you have a good set of XML libraries that do the hard job. I particularly recommend SimpleXML (for small files) and XMLReader (for large files). If you still find them complicate, you can try phpQuery.
You might want to give SimpleXML a try. Plus it comes by default in php so you dont need to install
Check out SimpleXML, it may offer a bit more for what you are looking for.

rtf format to pdf

Is there any way to convert rtf format to pdf using PHP?
Thanks
If you want to stick with pure PHP, you can probably use HTML as an intermediary:
Convert RTF to HTML
http://freshmeat.net/projects/rtf2htm/ , http://www.phpclasses.org/package/1930-PHP-RTF-to-HTML-converter-with-latin-character-support.html
Optionally: clean up the HTML
http://htmlpurifier.org/
Convert HTML to PDF
http://dompdf.github.io/
You can use OpenOffice command line interface for that. Check my answer to a similar question.
Ted is the tool you're looking for. Ted brings also a script called rtf2pdf.sh you can execute by PHP to create a PDF file.
You should try out livedocx livedocx.com . The latest Zend Framework 1.10 has a ready built module to help you out. You can read more about it at this place http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/template-based-document-generation-using-livedocx-and-zend-framework

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