PHP with xslt help

peppino

This may not be the place for this question, but im hoping someone will have had expierience with this.

I am trying to use XSLT to generate php pages with php code in them. For example

XSLT will create hello.php

hello.php should include the code

<? echo "hello" ?>

My problem is, how to i get the XSLT to write the above line of code to the hello.php page so it can function in the browser?

I am new to xslt but very good at php. this application im working with uses xslt to generate html pages, but i want to make them php pages with actual php code in them.

Any help would be much appreciated!

big_nerd

peppino,

XSLT is processed by the browser, if I am not mistaken. PHP is processed by the server, this would make it impossible.

To be honest I don't know much about XSLT myself, but from what I can tell (w3schools) it is used in conjunction with XML.

peppino

Yeah im very new to XSLT. I mainly just want the xslt to transform the xml into a php page that i will then upload to a server, and processed by the server when the viewer sees the page. I just need the xslt to include some php code for the browser to process when it generates the php file. Kind of hard to explain i gess

NogDog

Unless I'm misunderstanding things here, I cannot see any sense in having a XSLT file generate PHP code, as the client would not be able to do anything with it. The basic flow is:

Client obtains the XML file, which includes a link to a XSLT file.
Client obtains the XSLT file
Client displays output based on the interaction of the XSLT file's instructions with the XML file's data

Therefore, all "processing" is done on the client, with the server just serving up the files requested by the client, so any PHP code generated by the XSLT file will not be able to be executed by the server, as it's all happening on the client.

However, it's entirely possible to have the XSLT file be a PHP file which, when requested by the client, dynamically outputs XSLT content based on whatever programming logic is required, with the generated output being pure XSLT. Perhaps this is what you're after?

peppino

Well, what im actually doing is working on creating web gallery templates for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. The Lightroom program itself does the transformation and then spits out a folder will all associated and generated html pages for the web gallery. Then the person has to upload the gallery to a server if they want to see it online. What im trying to do is have lightroom output php files instead of html files. I can get it to create a php page with .php extension but i just cant get php code written to that file so when the user upload it the php code will run when the page is called. Hope that makes sense

Weedpacket

It is quite feasible to have an XSLT transformation output PHP code if it's a PHP code generator you're after; a common use of XSLT is to transform XML into PDF (or plain text, for that matter), after all.

Frankly, the fact that it's PHP is irrelevant; you have to get familiar enough with XSLT to be able to do anything nontrivial (XML->XML, XML->HTML, or XML->whatever), and that's the difficult part about writing something to transfom XML->PHP. In short, you'll have to know how to transform to anything before you'll be able to transform to that.

From what you've said I take it Lightroom takes user-supplied XSLT files and does all the transformations in-app, and that you want to do this without using PHP. Otherwise I'd suggest an alternative of writing a PHP program to read the XML and output PHP.