PHP and Cocoon2 Question

Homer30

Hy,

have to make an website with php and cocoon2.
My Question:

My starting file is of course index.php and i want to include cocoon
created html code, how can i do this?

Or is it better to make an php file with the help of cocoon, if that is possible?

Sorry for these too general questions, but just started using cocoon and php.

Thanks in advance.
Homer30

_SuperString

what's cocoon ??

Homer30

Hy SuperString,

it's an environment (needs a Tomcat server) for parsing XML files into different formats like HTML, PDF, SVG and others.
It uses XSLT for transforming the XML file and gives the result back in your preferred format.

For further information look here:
http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/index.html

_SuperString

Cheers Homer30,

Looks interesting, may be something I will need to look into in more details in the future.

About your question - I have htm page that have been generated from Magic, and what I do is use PHP to read (and format them if needed) then disply the content from within the PHP page.

for example say you have a htm file called cocoon.htm, you could write:

if(!($fp = fopen("cocoon.htm", "r"))) {
   die ("Cannot open cocoon.htm.");
}
  $page = (string) fread($fp, 2000000);
echo $page;

You can also edit parts of the html (remove tags) by using str_replace() on $page.

hope this helps.

Homer30

Thanks for your answer.
I will test it.

Homer30

It works for a simple table created with XSLT, great :-)

Thanks again, SuperString!

Homer30