[RESOLVED] Passing xsl:parameters to php thence to xsl

pauljr8

Hello,
I am stuck. The following asp accepts and passes xsl parameters from a web page which then transforms my xsl, but for the life of me I can't get php to do the same. I want to be strictly LAMP, no $MS stuff.

selectmenu.asp
<%

Dim xslDoc, xmlDoc

Dim name

sname=Request.QueryString("name")

set xmlDoc = server.CreateObject("Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.3.0")

set xslDoc = server.CreateObject("Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.3.0")

xmlDoc.async = False

xslDoc.async = False

xmlDoc.load server.mapPath("index.xml")

xslDoc.load server.mapPath("index.xsl")

Set template = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.XSLTemplate.3.0")

Set template.stylesheet = xslDoc

Set proc = template.createProcessor

proc.input = xmlDoc

proc.addParameter "name", sname

proc.transform

Response.Write proc.output

index.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml"

doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" />

<xsl:param name="name" select="'Home'" />

<xsl:param name="Ncols" select="'2'" />

<xsl:template match="/">

</head>

<body>

<li align="left"><strong><a><xsl:attribute name="href">selectmenu.php?name=<xsl:value-of select="@name" />

</xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></a></strong><br /><br /></li></xsl:for-each>

</ul></div>

</body>

</html>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="announcement"><br />

<div>

<xsl:for-each select="."><h3 align="center"><xsl:value-of select="./@name" /></h3>

</p>

<hr />

</xsl:for-each>

</div>

...

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

selectmenu.php
<?
$name=$GET['name'];
//$name = $REQUEST['name'];
$xp = new XsltProcessor();

// create a DOM document and load the XSL stylesheet
$xsl = new DomDocument;
$xsl->load('index.xsl');
// import the XSL styelsheet into the XSLT process
$xp->importStylesheet($xsl);

// create a DOM document and load the XML data
$xml_doc = new DomDocument;
$xml_doc->load('index.xml');
$xp->setParameter('', 'name', $name));
if ($html = $xp->transformToXML($xml_doc)) {
echo $html;
} else {
trigger_error('XSL transformation failed.', E_USER_ERROR);
} if
?>

index.php calls the xml and xsl files and renders them correctly. The links it creates reflect that the link urls are (for example) selectmenu.php?name=Services but this doesn't seem to get passed into selectmenu.php or passed back to the xsl to display the relevant page. Instead the "Home" page (the default xsl:parameter) is displayed. Putting $ in place of @ in the xsl causes a blank page to be rendered and a myriad of other tries also don't produce the right results. The preceeding code might not make sense as I gave up exasperated to write this.

Please help as I don't want to revert back to asp and all that that encompasses.

Fedora Core 5

PHP 5.2.0
./configure' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs' '--with-gd' '--with-gettext' '--with-xsl=/usr/lib' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config' '--with-regex=system' '--with-zlib' '--with-curl' '--with-openssl' '--enable-mbstring'

Apache 2.2.3

I do think I've tried everything, even to the point of being ridiculous.:eek: Sorry for the smilies in the code; not my fault.

TIA
Paul

pauljr8

Just needed a couple days away from the problem.
This works like a champ except I want to get rid of my urls appearing as; for example
www.example.com/selectmenu.php?name=events
instead of www.example.com

<?
$name=$GET['name'];
//$name = $REQUEST['name'];
$xp = new XsltProcessor();

// create a DOM document and load the XSL stylesheet
$xsl = new DomDocument;
$xsl->load('index.xsl');
// import the XSL styelsheet into the XSLT process
$xp->importStylesheet($xsl);

// create a DOM document and load the XML data
$xml_doc = new DomDocument;
$xml_doc->load('index.xml');
//$xp->setParameter('','name', $name);
//$proc->transform;
$xp->setParameter('', 'name', $name);
if ($html = $xp->transformToXML($xml_doc)) {
echo $html;
} else {
trigger_error('XSL transformation failed.', E_USER_ERROR);
}