[RESOLVED] processing .xml file as php?

screative

Can you process a .xml file as php? What I want do is have some php code load and execute on data from an xml file then send it to the user's browser.

Can you tell the server to stick in some php code into all .xml files by default.. similar to application.cfm file with Coldfusion?

So my urls would look like this.. http://www.example.com/work.xml but would load a web page built off the the xml data in work.xml instead of just sending the unaltered work.xml file to the browser.

Is there a better way?

I am making a mini specialized content management system and I want all my files on the server to be .xml files without visual layout data in them.

bradgrafelman

Well... if you have access to the webserver config, you could force your webserver to run all .xml files through the PHP parser, but this isn't really efficient.

Why can't you just rename it to work.php ?

screative

I guess i really didn't know that you could use .php for just an xml file and still have the file read correctly. I play around with using .php.

Do you know how to load a chunk of php code into all php pages without using include? So the server automatically inserts the chunk of code into everything?

bradgrafelman

Well.. that depends. If the "chunk of code" you're talking about should appear at the very top or very bottom, you can have PHP auto prepend/append files to all PHP files (or all PHP files in a certain directory on your website), you can use a .htaccess file like so:

php_value auto_append_file "/home/userName/path/to/script.php"

(replace append with prepend if you want the script included at the beginning).

screative

sweet. thanks.