xml web services in php...

[Jasp182]

This is a n00b-ish question, but bear with me. I'm setting up web services on one of my sites, and my first instinct is to do it the same way I would build a web page. Make a php file that, when called, outputs my xml data. I can accept $_GET vars and use that to pull the data from the db, and then iterate through my objects to parse my xml elements. I'd rather have these services on demand, so I figured this is the best way to do it - as opposed to having a cron that regularly parses the data to static .xml files and just leave them on my server. I'm just looking for opinions here and examples of how other users have served dynamic xml web services using php on production websites. Thanks.

[Weedpacket]

Sure; PHP doesn't care what it outputs. HTML, XML, CSS, JS, PDF .... it's all the same as far as PHP is concerned.

It makes a difference to the client receiving the file of course, becuase it needs to know what to do with it; but that's what the Content-Type: [man]header[/man] is for.