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Php Functions
Using PHP and XML with Apache Cocoon - Page 3
by: Darren Beale
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July 30, 2000
Stage 2) Bring on the PHP
Ok, so this is all well and good, but Its static mark-up, I want to use PHP to generate the XML dynamically, so lets look at the next example, phpbuilder.php:
<?php
/*
I want to print out a greeting to a number of
countries, not just the World, so in no particular order
*/
$countries = array (
"UK", "USA", "France", "Germany", "Holland",
"Belgium", "Spain", "Denmark", "Finland",
"Sweden", "Japan", "China", "New Zealand", "Australia"
);
//Now open up a file on the server called dynamic-phpbuilder.xml
$handle = fopen("./dynamic-phpbuilder.xml","w");
/*
Now we build up a string that we can save out to our file, notice that the
"<?" tags have been separated so we don't confuse the PHP interpreter.
*/
$tofile = "<" . "?" . "xml version=\"1.0\"" . "?" . ">\n";
$tofile .= "<" . "?" . "xml-stylesheet href=\"dynamic-phpbuilder.xsl\" type=\"text/xsl\"" . "?" . ">\n";
$tofile .= "<" . "?" . "cocoon-process type=\"xslt\"" . "?" . ">\n\n";
$tofile .= "<phpbuilder>\n";
$tofile .= "\t<heading>This is a Dynamically Generated XML that has been Transformed using XSLT</heading>\n";
/*
We now do a very simple loop and output our
greeting to all the countries in our example array:
*/
for ($x=0;$x<sizeof($countries);$x++) {
$tofile .= "\t<message>\n";
$tofile .= "\t\t<greeting>" . $countries[$x] . "</greeting>\n";
$tofile .= "\t</message>\n";
}
$tofile .= "</phpbuilder>\n";
//Write the string to our file and close the handle
fwrite($handle,$tofile);
fclose($handle);
//Finally we redirect to the newly created dynamic-phpbuilder.xml file.
header("Location: dynamic-phpbuilder.xml");
?>
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