Parsing XML Data

[santhanam]

Hello Friends,
I want to parse XML Data (Which i will get from another website / URL). In almost all the samples i found, they deal only with xml files (Which are in the same server as that of the php files). Please kindly help me in this regard.
Thanks in Advance.
With Regards
Santhanam

[Weedpacket]

Which is the part you're having trouble with; reading the XML file from the remote server to the local machine, or parsing it once it's there?

bare outline of main loop:

1. create XML parser

2. fopen remote file;

3. if EOF not yet reached:

4. read a chunk of the file

5. xml_parse it

6. jump to step 3.

7. fclose remote file;

[santhanam]

Hello Friend,
Thanks for your quick reply.
I want to parse XML Data which i get from this URL :

http://216.216.246.31/bin/findwhat.dll?getresults&dc=25&mt=car&base=50&aff_id=0&ip_addr=216.216.246.101

It is not a remote XML File.
How can i do it ?
Please kindly help me
With Regards
Santhanam

[Weedpacket]

Okay, so it's dynamically generated as a result of an actual http request.

Well, that's not really so much different from treating it as a file.

Use [man]fsockopen[/man], and construct the appropriate http GET request (there's an example on the cited page), with the full URL in it, send it to the server, and read through the response as you would for a file (fread a chunk, parse it, fread another chunk...). The only thing to note is that what you fread will include the http response header - so throw away everything up to and including the first blank line before you start XML parsing.

[acidbox]

Can anyone expand on this or have an example where this is done? I have had a lot of trouble with this exact problem, where I have to parse an XML file that is generated from a tricky web URL. Is there some code somewhere we could look at?

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by acidbox
Can anyone expand on this or have an example where this is done? I have had a lot of trouble with this exact problem, where I have to parse an XML file that is generated from a tricky web URL. Is there some code somewhere we could look at?

Use [man]fsockopen[/man], and construct the appropriate http GET request (there's an example on the cited page), with the full URL in it, send it to the server, and read through the response as you would for a file (fread a chunk, parse it, fread another chunk...).