Php And Xml

Is there any way to use PHP in an XML script?

Or have XML manipulate POST and/or GET (form) data?

 

You can configure apache to parse PHP code in XML files, but it doesn't work by default. You can also use mod rewrite.

Though, can you be a little more specific?

 

Here's the situation:

I have a flash web video player and one of the files of the player is an xml document. inside this xml is:

'

I want the player to be dynamic so that according to a $_GET value i can change the string "video.flv". I tried inserting php code as such:

But to no avail. Please help!

 

to elaborate, when i try to open the php-added xml script, there is a prompt that says something like 'if you continue loading this script it may cause the computer to become unresponsive.' I continued loading and the browser became unresponsive.

 

Change the .xml extension to .php, and save this as .htaccess in the directory where you're using this.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[B]your-file-name[/B]\.xml$ [B]your-file-name[/B].php?%{QUERY_STRING}

Code (markup):

Change the bold text to "playlist" or however you want to call the file.

 

should i substitute QUERY STRING w/ something?

 

..and what exactly will that do? does it tell the server to read filename.php as filename.xml? exactly how will it solve the xml-php problem?

 

just wondering, is the '/' supposed to be there after the first iteration of the boldprint file name? i recognized the caret and dollarsign as begin and end for eregi(); just making sure