Evaluating php tags/documents outside of web server?

[Isak]

I need to generate and send multiple xml documents over a socket.

Is it feasible to use php as a templating language for these? How would
i go about that?

I figure i _could_ make them into 'normal pages' and fetch the contents
using some http library, but that doesn't sound too elegant. There has
to be a better way?


Thanks,
Isak

[petersprc]

Re: Evaluating php tags/documents outside of web server?

Hi,

Yes you could use PHP, for example:

foreach ($items as $item) {
ob_start();
require('xml-template.php');
$text = ob_get_contents ();
ob_end_clean();
fwrite($sock, $text) or trigger_error(' fwrite');
}

You could also build the XML tree programmaticall y. Some examples here:

http://wiki.cc/php/Dom_build

Isak wrote:

I need to generate and send multiple xml documents over a socket.
>
Is it feasible to use php as a templating language for these? How would
i go about that?
>
I figure i _could_ make them into 'normal pages' and fetch the contents
using some http library, but that doesn't sound too elegant. There has
to be a better way?
>
>
Thanks,
Isak