Consuming XML on the local PC through a PHP WebServer

khovorka

Hello,

I want to see if someone can tell me how to this could be done or if it can be done.

We have our website setup up to communicate with another website use PHP and REST. The other site returns several XML packets that I parse and then combine in
to a single XML file. We are just on a shared server and things are not done real fast.

What my question is is: Is it possible to pass the XML to the local PC for the person who came to our website and have the XML processed on their local PC rather than on the Shared Server. We are currently hosted by bluehost.com and a dedicated server is not affordable for me at this time. Would I have to have some type of
client software that would need to be tranparently downloaded on to the local PC?
I am curious if it is possible to do a REST application with Javascript as well.

Kim H.

Weedpacket

khovorka wrote:
Is it possible to pass the XML to the local PC for the person who came to our website and have the XML processed on their local PC rather than on the Shared Server.

It's what the 'X' in AJAX actually stands for. Browser implementations of JavaScript have a full library of methods and objects for working with XML data. That's assuming you don't want to just send an XML file as the page with an XSLT to reformat it as HTML on the browser.

I am curious if it is possible to do a REST application with Javascript as well.

Well yes, it's just a matter of constructing URLs and requesting them. JavaScript can certainly do that.

Since all this is about doing processing on the client, I'll move this to the clientside forum.