load dynamic dll - php_domxml.dll, invalid ELF header

[mfacer]

I'm trying to load a DLL - my host has turned off safe mode so I could use the PHP dl() function..

dl("php_domxml.dll");

trouble is, i'm getting the error

Warning: dl() [function.dl]: Unable to load dynamic library './php_domxml.dll' - ./php_domxml.dll: invalid ELF header

any ideas where I'm going wrong?! here's the php info
http://www.mattfacer.com/widgets/phpinfo.php

Cheers

[MarkR]

You can't load binary modules which are not compatible with the version of PHP you're loading them into.

My guess is that this is a windows extension- moreover, it probably isn't for the same version of PHP anyway (I don't think DOMXML is available for PHP4).

You should just use a version of PHP which has that module anyway.

dl() should generally speaking never be used - especially on a shared host (where I'm frankly quite surprised they let you use it)

Mark

[mfacer]

ah ok, thanks for the reply!

All I am trying to do is read XML data from the ebay API - I read that DOMXML can do this easily... is there any other method I might use?

[Weedpacket]

DOMXML is the PHP 4 extension (obsoleted and replaced by the DOM extension in PHP 5). Meanwhile dl() is deprecated in PHP 5 (and basically gone in PHP 6; so you're a bit behind the times here).

However, as MarkR notes, there is no point trying to load a Windows DLL on what is clearly some breed of Unix; the right extension would more likely have a file extension of ".so".

To get you parsing XML, though, have a look at the [man]XML[/man] parser functions; they should be enabled already (as they need to be explicitly turned off).