php and xml

[greg brant]

hi,

this is a bit of an advice thing.
iv just finished a degree in multimedia, where i learned the usuals...
html
flash
director
javascript

i also learned php and i have been told that i should get to grips with xml
as this combination
is verry useful

so iv been messing arround with xml for the past couple of days trying to
figure out how the two would work together.

i just cant grasp the idea..

on thought i have had is that you could use php with a database to generate
xml but surely that would not be parsed as xml as it would have the .php
extension..

as i say im strugling to get this one?

any ideas or url's

cheers

Greg Brant

[steffen horst]

Re: php and xml

> so iv been messing arround with xml for the past couple of days trying to[color=blue]
> figure out how the two would work together.[/color]

what about xsl-t?

s


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[topls64]

Re: php and xml

Yes, the data going between a web service and its client app is XML. In
fact, I'm working on some stuff now using NuSOAP (a php class file on the
server) and a vb.net client. Works very well, even though nusoap is still
sortof in its infancy.
[color=blue]
> In web development, XML may be used in (at least) two ways :
> - in web services protocols (?) like XML-RPC
> - as a way to store content, which may later be parsed and transformed
> into (x)html. BTW, xhtml is more or less html 4 rewritten in valid XML.[/color]

[Tony Marston]

Re: php and xml

steffen horst <moin666@email. com> wrote in message news:<oprr0fowe a822tll@news.t-online.de>...[color=blue][color=green]
> > so iv been messing arround with xml for the past couple of days trying to
> > figure out how the two would work together.[/color]
>
> what about xsl-t?
>
> s[/color]

I am currently developing a web application which uses PHP to create
XML files from a MySQL database, then uses XSL transformations to
create HTML files. This completely separates the presentation layer
from the business layer. Take a look at the following articles for
more details:

http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/domxml.html - Using PHP's DOM XML
functions to create XML files from SQL data

http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/sablotron.html - Using PHP's
Sablotron extension to perform XSL Transformations

Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

[steffen horst]

Re: php and xml

hi
[color=blue][color=green]
>> what about xsl-t?[/color]
> I am currently developing a web application which uses PHP to create
> XML files from a MySQL database, then uses XSL transformations to
> create HTML files. This completely separates the presentation layer
> from the business layer. Take a look at the following articles for
> more details:[/color]

i save reviews of records in xml-files. to transform these files into valid
html i'm using sablotron too. that's very interesting, even if there's no
other useful format to transform these xml-files to.

s


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[Richard Hulbert]

Re: php and xml

in article vgm8fgj9hkb683@ corp.supernews. com, greg brant at
greg_brant@yaho o.co.uk wrote on 8/7/03 8:56 pm:
[color=blue]
> hi,
>
> this is a bit of an advice thing.
> iv just finished a degree in multimedia, where i learned the usuals...
> html
> flash
> director
> javascript
>
> i also learned php and i have been told that i should get to grips with xml
> as this combination
> is verry useful
>
> so iv been messing arround with xml for the past couple of days trying to
> figure out how the two would work together.
>
> i just cant grasp the idea..
>
> on thought i have had is that you could use php with a database to generate
> xml but surely that would not be parsed as xml as it would have the .php
> extension..
>
> as i say im strugling to get this one?
>
> any ideas or url's
>
> cheers
>
> Greg Brant
>
>[/color]
Hi Greg

The Extension is not relevant as far as XML is concerned you could echo all
the constituent parts out in PHP and it will be parsed as XML provided you
create well formed XML and declare it as XML in the first line of code. I
did just this before I realised the power of the PHP XML DOM

XML is a great way to get data sets into Flash

EG In flash
Create new XML object
Load a Dynamically Created XML doc (from PHP or jsp or ASP or anything)
Once Loaded you can use the DOM as the Dynamic element of your flash piece.


Richard