How can I output this as a file?

habbardone

I need to look through an xml file
but when I dump it to screen with the following code
I get a fatal error - out of memory.

$xml = simplexml_load_file($file);
echo '<pre>';
print_r( $xml ); // dump contents of $xml
echo '</pre>';

How can I dump a formatted version to a txt file
that I can then view with notepad?

Thanks

Kudose

file_put_contents("myFile.txt", print_r($xml, true));

halojoy

I was suprised about the Out Of Memory thing.
Because even if that XML file is rather large
it would take very much before you run out of memory.
I did run the above script with a smaller 'file.xml'
And there was no problem.

The beginning looks like this

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [@attributes] => Array
        (
            [Version] => 1.0
        )

[METADATA] => SimpleXMLElement Object
    (
        [FIELDS] => SimpleXMLElement Object
            (
                [FIELD] => Array
                    (
                        [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                            (
                                [@attributes] => Array
                                    (
                                        [ATTRNAME] => id
                                        [FIELDTYPE] => Integer
                                        [WIDTH] => 74
                                    )

                            )

habbardone

The xml file is 26 meg.

I use a dedicated remote server and was running that php from my browser.
Maybe if I ran it directly on the server it would have been fine. 🙂

habbardone

I tried the code below.

I did not got any errors but I did not get a file either 😕

$xml = simplexml_load_file($file);
$cb_xml = "a_CB_XML.txt";
file_put_contents($cb_xml, print_r($xml, true)); 

$content = "Wrote to xml file: $cb_xml\r\n";
fwrite($handle, $content);

I did not get the "Wrote to xml file:" in my log.

Do I need to first open the file "a_CB_XML.txt" with fopen() ?

or does file_put_contents() work directly ?

Thanks

Kudose

How about:

$xml = simplexml_load_file($file);
$cb_xml = "a_CB_XML.txt";
if(file_put_contents($cb_xml, print_r($xml, true)))
  echo 'worked';
else
  echo 'failed';

Make sure you have error reporting and display errors on, or at least error logging.

[man]file_put_contents[/man] essentially does the fopen, fwrite and fclose for you.

Also make sure the directory the script is in is writeable by the web server, or supply the filename as a valid writeable path.

habbardone

Well this is very strange !

This is my code:

$file_dir = '/home/guru54gt5/public_html/sys/';

$file = $file_dir.'clickbank.xml';

$content = "Starting to process xml file: $file\r\n";
fwrite($handle, $content);

$xml = simplexml_load_file($file);

$cb_xml = $file_dir."a_CB_XML.txt";

$content = "Writing to xml file: $cb_xml\r\n";
fwrite($handle, $content);

if(file_put_contents($cb_xml, print_r($xml, true)))
  echo 'worked';
else
  echo 'failed'; 

$content = "Wrote to xml file: $cb_xml\r\n";
fwrite($handle, $content);
exit;

And this is recorded in my log:

New record - Time Stamp: 07:32:38 Monday, 18 January 2010
This script: sys/auto_cb_update.php, This file: /home/guru54gt5/public_html/sys/a_log_cb_update.txt
Starting to process xml file: /home/guru54gt5/public_html/sys/clickbank.xml
Writing to xml file: /home/guru54gt5/public_html/sys/a_CB_XML.txt

The script finishes with no error
(error reporting on) and with no file created
and no echoed output !

I am just going to look at the systems logs...

OK I see that I get this:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 50331648 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 18124801 bytes) in /home/guru54gt5/public_html/sys/auto_cb_update.php on line 145

That line is the if(file_put_contents($cb_xml, print_r($xml, true)))

So for some reason it can not handle
the print_r($xml, true) - runs out of mamory.

The xml file is 26 Mb but my system is showing:
Real memory 947.38 MB total, 570.73 MB used
and
Virtual memory 1 GB total, 107.68 MB used

So I don't know why I get this problem 😕

habbardone

I have just run the script on the server.

There are no fatal errors recored when I do it
that way ( instead of via my browser) but

I do NOT get any output NOR my txt file and
my log says the same thing
i.e. processing of the script stops when that file
operation is attempted.

This is a real pain because I want to carefully look through
the xlm file to see why my other script is
not process ing all the itmes. It processes about 9000
out of 11,000 and I don't know why it doesn't get all of them.

So looking through the input xml file seemed a good idea 😕

In notepad the file looks a mess. I am going to try HTML-Kit
maybe that will be better.

Kudose

It's not that your computer is out of memory, but the memory allocated to PHP has run out.

See [man]memory_limit[/man] and [man]ini_set[/man] for memory limit

habbardone

Thanks,

I used HTML-Kit to veiw the file and it
is nice and readable with that - so the problem went away 🙂

But my other problem in the thread :

My php script is not picking up the xml info

is still unsolved ...:eek:

any help much appreciated 🙂