how can i save my output to a file?

[marian]

hi all,

here is an xml script that i came across on php.net, which i have tweaked around to do what i want. right now it outputs unto the web browser, how can i make it output to a file? or to an array? any ideas, anyone.

thanks:

the code below basically replaces any html tags in the original xml with the the word Paragraph, and then outputs to the web browser.

<?php

$file = "test.xml";

define ('LT', '&lt;');
define ('GT', '&gt;');

$map_array = array(
"BOLD" => "B",
"PARAGRAPH" => "P",
"EMPHASIS" => "I"
);

$movie = array();

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs)
{
global $map_array;

if(in_array($name,$map_array)) 
{
   $test.=str_replace("<$name>", "PARAGRAPH", "<$name>");
}
else
{
	$test.= LT.strtolower($name).GT;
}

}

function endElement($parser, $name)
{
global $map_array;

if(in_array($name,$map_array)) 
{
   print str_replace("</$name>", "PARAGRAPH", "</$name>");
}
else
{
	$test.= LT."/".strtolower($name).GT;
}

}

function characterData($parser, $cdata)
{
$test.= $cdata;
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, true);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r")))
{
die("could not open XML input");
}

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
{
if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)))
{
die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}
}

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

if($testFile=fopen('test.xml', "w"))
{

fwrite($testFile, $test);
}

?>

[devinemke]

you have a few choices:

1. go through the function and replace every instance of print or echo with something like $ouput .= which will capture all of the output to string.

2. leave the fucntion exactly as is and use Output Control Functions to grab the output as a string.

either way, once you have the string you can save it to a file using [man]fopen[/man] and [man]fwrite[/man]

option #2 is alot easier, especailly if you still need the function to ulimately output to the browser as well.

[marian]

ok i did just like you said use fopen and fwrite;

now i noticed that when the string is writing to the file, it leaves a line break, which i don't want. how can i make it not break:

eg, i want this when the string writes to the file:

<name>Test</name>
<school>abc</school>
<year>2005</year>

not this:
<name>Test</name>

<school>abc</school>

<year>2005</year>