XML communication suggestions

[Mathieu Maes]

Hello all,

I'm working on a professional invoice webapplication. I'm working on
means to automate the invoice generation. Therefor I created a class
which creates invoices using given XML-data. This is what the server
can do...

Now I'm looking for solutions to allow clients with external servers
(like websites) to send XML data to the API. Here I'm stuck...

- email : I already have some experience with a mail parser and a
mail2php pipe, but I never succeeded in parsing the attachments. Does
anyone have any experience with parsing mail attachments ?

- SOAP : I've been looking at the SOAP client/server objects in PHP,
but they seem quite complicated to provide on clients who want to
automate invoices...

- HTTP request : Is there a way to upload a file with an HTTP request
programmaticall y ?

- ... (maybe someone has other solutions ?)

Thanks in advance for your input.

Kind regards
Mathew

[PTM]

Re: XML communication suggestions

"Mathieu Maes" <mathieu.maes@g mail.comwrote in message
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Hello all,
>
I'm working on a professional invoice webapplication. I'm working on
means to automate the invoice generation. Therefor I created a class
which creates invoices using given XML-data. This is what the server
can do...
>
Now I'm looking for solutions to allow clients with external servers
(like websites) to send XML data to the API. Here I'm stuck...
>
- email : I already have some experience with a mail parser and a
mail2php pipe, but I never succeeded in parsing the attachments. Does
anyone have any experience with parsing mail attachments ?
>
- SOAP : I've been looking at the SOAP client/server objects in PHP,
but they seem quite complicated to provide on clients who want to
automate invoices...
>
- HTTP request : Is there a way to upload a file with an HTTP request
programmaticall y ?
>
- ... (maybe someone has other solutions ?)
>
Thanks in advance for your input.
>
Kind regards
Mathew
>

Could I ask how you created your class (any examples would be great)? I've
been trying something similar for something on my own site (not invoices),
and I am having awful trouble with it.
Each alteration I make to fix one thing seems to cause another problem I
wasn't expecting, and I've never done anything with classes before.

Cheers,

Phil

[Mathieu Maes]

Re: XML communication suggestions

Could I ask how you created your class (any examples would be great)? I've

been trying something similar for something on my own site (not invoices),
and I am having awful trouble with it.
Each alteration I make to fix one thing seems to cause another problem I
wasn't expecting, and I've never done anything with classes before.

Hi Phil

I used the PHP DOM XML objects to parse the XML file, in order to
translate the data into an array, which is dan injected in MySQL.

You should look at :

http://be2.php.net/manual/tr/ref.domxml.php

These functions only work in PHP4. I'll need to rewrite the class to
let it work in PHP using the DOM functions :

http://be2.php.net/manual/tr/ref.dom.php

I you like, I can mail you the class if you like...

Kind regards,
Mathew

[Petr Vileta]

Re: XML communication suggestions

Hello all,

>
I'm working on a professional invoice webapplication. I'm working on
means to automate the invoice generation. Therefor I created a class
which creates invoices using given XML-data. This is what the server
can do...
>
Now I'm looking for solutions to allow clients with external servers
(like websites) to send XML data to the API. Here I'm stuck...
>

[...]

- HTTP request : Is there a way to upload a file with an HTTP request
programmaticall y ?
>

You can create and <formwith hidden input. Into this hidden input you can
put base64 encoded xml file and submit form. This you can do in PHP on
external server and this php script can work under cron or some like cron.
External user download some your script, setup it on his server and are
ready to sending xml to you.

Or you can build some application for users, eg. in Perl/Tk. This is
multiplatform (Windows, Linux) and you can comunicate with your app in any
protocol you want. If you don't know Perl/Tk, you can try my Graphical Ping
app here
http://www.stahuj.cz/internet_a_site...ng/download/?g[oz]=1.2&g[up]=
or here

http://www.studna.cz/go/download/fid/4757?PHPSESSID=5967d99c3d08f3e24c20c914dd630d10

Don't dread that pages are in Czech language. My app have English too :-)
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