php xml coding

[bodla_shashidha]

Hi all,

This is new one to forum.

I would like to share my problem that i want to design a webpage which presentation goes in "xml" and all the functionality goes in the php scripting performing on "xml".

i request seniors in php to helpme out of this problem

thanks in advance for all....

[Shrike]

PHP has two options for working with XML - the built-in Expat SAX parser and the DOMXML extension DOM parser. The first parser is good for quick and dirty XML parsing, but the second version gives you full control over the XML document as a tree object. You need to compile PHP with DOMXML if you want to use it.

If your thinking of displaying XML directly in a page, then you may want to look at the XSLT extension too, again this requires you to compile with XSLT.

If you explained what you want to do a little more you'll get a more thorough answer 🙂

[bodla_shashidha]

I am very much thankful to you shrike for responding immediately..

 Here i will explain the whole story.. please listen me ...

we have a project in php, where all the designing of webpages goes in "xml" (ie,which is a presentation layer)
the coding goes in php
and the database is in mysql.

here is not the problem of reading the data from xml file(using SAX/DOMXML parser,which we done earlierly) through the php.
the problem is that we want to design the page in which all the controls of xml should present(like in html, we have listbox,dropdown box, etc)

but how to define these controls in xml as we do in the html..

i think you might have understood the problem very clearly...

i hope so...

waiting for your reply....

[Shrike]

I guess you would have to set up either an XSLT file or PHP script to transform the XML, and have PHP execute it.