Question for PHP and XML (XSL)

[grinfeld]

Hi! I am trying to write little script using XML and XSL in PHP. My question is if I can to put PHP code into XML file and PHP will parse it not as common TEXT but as PHP (evaluate variables and expressions).
I tried to put into xml

<menu>
<menu_name>Hello</menu_name>
<menu_link><?= $variable ?></menu_link>
</menu>

and some other ways but nothing works.
thx

[drew010]

since using the echo tags like that wont work you can make your own variable tagging system, for example, {:variable:} will represent $variable or {:name:} will represent $name we can use preg_replace to switch those templates into the actual variable data.

here is a little code snippet you can work with and see if you can get it working with your code:

$name = "drew";

$text = "hey there {:name:}, how are you?";

$newtext = preg_replace("/{:(\w+):}/e", "$\\1", $text);

echo $newtext;

basically, you will grab your xml doc with the variable tags in it, make sure the replacements exist before you run the preg_match code, and then apply your transformation after preg and it should be how you want. let me know if you have any troubles.