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what am i doing wrong, php xml parsing

Discussion in 'PHP' started by billybrag, Jun 27, 2006.

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    Hello all,

    please bear with me on this as its my first dabble into XML parsing with php

    I am trying to use miniXML to parse a test xml feed i have created and then read out the results.
    the code i have is..
    
<?php
$test="
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>
<NewsML>
  <Catalog Href=\"http://www.afp.com/dtd/AFPCatalog.xml\"/>
  <NewsEnvelope>
    <DateAndTime>20040602T085510Z</DateAndTime>
  </NewsEnvelope>
</NewsML>
";

header("Content-type: text/html");

// Use the MiniXML library
require_once("../xml/includes/minixml.inc.php");

?>

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>MiniXML: Overview</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<?php

//Create a MiniXMLDoc object:
$parsedDoc = new MiniXMLDoc();

//Call fromString()
$parsedDoc->fromString($test);
	
//That's all.  Now we can access the elements and their data using appropriate methods.  
//To access elements, start by getting the root element.
$rootEl =& $parsedDoc->getRoot();

$newsml =& $rootEl->getElement('NewsML');
$newsen =& $newsml->getElement('NewsEnvelope');
$status =& $newsml->getElement('DateAndTime');

print $status;
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>
    Code (markup):


    As you can see its pretty basic, but all it outputs is the word object as seen here http://www.weblinker.co.uk/xml/index1.php.

    what does that mean and can anyone offer any suggestions?

    thanks

    Mike
     
    billybrag, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  2. Evoleto

    Evoleto Well-Known Member

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    I'm not familiar with MiniXML, but as I can see you are outputing an object type variable there. So, if you want to examine the object use var_dump($status).

    However, I belive this is not what you're looking for and I know the $parsedDoc instance supports the toString() method, so I'd test:

    
echo $parsedDoc->toString();
    Code (markup):
    I don't know if the element objects support this method (eg. $status->toString()) but you should try it out.

    Good luck!
     
    Evoleto, Jun 27, 2006 IP
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  3. billybrag

    billybrag Peon

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    thanks Evoleto,

    That really helped me take a step forward and i am now on my way to getting it!!
    :)

    One other question i have is, is there a php way of getting the xml from a particular url and putting it into a file, so i can manipulate it as above?

    Thanks again i really appreciate it

    Mike
     
    billybrag, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  4. Evoleto

    Evoleto Well-Known Member

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    I'm glad I could help Mike.

    Yes you can open remote XML files directly via fopen():

    $fp = fopen("http://www.here.com/news.xml", "r");
    Code (markup):
    Or directly store the feed contents in a string variable:

    $myxml = file_get_contents("http://www.here.com/news.xml");
    Code (markup):
     
    Evoleto, Jun 27, 2006 IP
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    ipheo.com Peon

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    Hmm, just a guess but I think the second argument of your file_get_contents is wrong; in any case it's not needed.
     
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    Evoleto Well-Known Member

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    Ipheo,

    Thanks for pointing out, I just copy/pasted the fopen example and forgot to remove the open type argument.
     
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    hmm this is wierd, it is almost working fine, however, It is failing to display seemingly random bits of the feed.

    Infact having used the 
    echo $parsedDoc->toString();
    Code (markup):
    mentioned above i can see that it is not even there?

    any ideas, or even better any very basic parsing scripts that i can play with?
     
    billybrag, Jun 29, 2006 IP