xml

[rowantrimmer]

Hello,

I have finally got my php script working so that it will read in a pipe delimited file and display the xml. What I want to do though is instead of displaying it ont the screen to write it away into a file called pl.xml instead. Anyone can help ?

I have attached the code....

<?php

include("vars.php");

$fp=fopen($textfile,'r');
$FileContents=fread($fp, filesize ($textfile));
fclose($fp);

$FileData= explode("^", $FileContents);

echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?>\n";
echo "<properties>\n";

for($i=0;$i<count($FileData);$i++)
{

$Data = explode("¦", $FileData[$i]);

for($c=0;$c<10;$c++)

{$Result[$c]=trim($Data[$c]); }

$c=0;

$image=$Result[3];

$conv_image=eregi_replace(",", " " , $image);

$len=strpos($conv_image," ");

					$Result[3]=substr($conv_image,0,$len);

echo " <property>\n";
echo " <property_ref>{$Result[0]}</property_ref>\n";
echo " <location>{$Result[1]}</location>\n";
echo " <price>{$Result[2]}</price>\n";
echo " <main_image>{$Result[3]}</main_image>\n";
echo " <bullet1>{$Result[4]}</bullet1>\n";
echo " <bullet2>{$Result[5]}</bullet2>\n";
echo " <bullet3>{$Result[6]}</bullet3>\n";
echo " <bullet4>{$Result[7]}</bullet4>\n";
echo " <bullet5>{$Result[8]}</bullet5>\n";
echo " <bullet6>{$Result[9]}</bullet6>\n";
echo " <bullet7>{$Result[10]}</bullet7>\n";
echo " <bullet8>{$Result[11]}</bullet8>\n";
echo " </property>\n";
}
echo "</properties>\n";
?>

[zingbats]

Right, I know poo all about XML, but I find it easier to NOT use php to echo HTML

I would do something like this:

<property>
<property_ref>{<?=$Result[0]?>}</property_ref>
<location>{<?=$Result[1]?>}</location>
<price>{<?=$Result[2]?>}</price>

[yelvington]

Actually, rowantrimmer, you're well on the way to solving the problem.

Change all your echos to $output .= "value" (which concatenates "value" to the variable). The result will be a built-up string containing all of the data you want to write to your file.

Then fopen / fwrite / fclose.

Alternatively, look into the output buffering functions.