Completely new to PHP - Bomgar XML

[drwhistler]

Hello Everyone,

I am very new to PHP programming. I have written very simple shell scripts. I am not a programmer. I need to whip up a very simple script to display a website if a rep is logged on or not.

I have a Bomgar appliance and I can send it commands and obtain the output in XML format.

Here is my PHP script that I ran when I am not logged on the Bomgar box:

<?php
$request_url = "my_url";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($request_url) or die("feed not loading");
var_dump($xml);

?>

Here is the output of the PHP script:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) { [0]=> string(1) " " }

Here is the output of the PHP script when I am logged onto Bomgar box:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) { ["rep"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (6) { ["@attributes"]=> array(1) { ["id"]=> string(1) "1" } ["display_name"]=> string(6) "Dustin" ["direct_link"]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (1) { ["a"]=> string(6) "Dustin" } ["logged_in_since"]=> string(16) "04/29/2010 22:47" ["presentation_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["support_session_count"]=> string(1) "0" } }

How can I determine if "Dustin" is logged on or not? I would like to display an URL when I am not logged on and a different URL when I am logged on.

I hope this makes sense and this can be accomplished very easily! I am just confused on how to read the "SimpleXMLElement" output.

Thank you
Dustin

[kkobashi]

Try playing with this:

$strXml = simplexml_load_file("path/to/xml/file") or die("feed not loading");
$xmlElement = new SimpleXMLElement($strXml);

if ($xmlElement->rep[0]->display_name == "Dustin") {
  echo $xmlElement->rep[0]->logged_in_since;
}

[drwhistler]

Thank you, kkobashi. I played around with your code for a while. I always get a blank when I run your PHP code. I fiddled around with different values for $xmlElement.

I read in another post that Firefox can display XML. So I entered the "/path/to/xml/file" and I received this:

-<logged_in_reps>
&#8722;<rep id="1">
-<display_name>Dustin</display_name>
&#8722;<direct_link>
<a href="http://URL"
</direct_link>
<logged_in_since ts="1272592751">04/29/2010 21:59</logged_in_since>
<presentation_count>0</presentation_count>
<support_session_count>0</support_session_count>
</rep>
</logged_in_reps>

I hope this makes sense. I am a little clueless on what to put down for $xmlElement to grab "Display_name" or "rep id"

Thank you

[drwhistler]

Oh, this software changed the layout. Firefox displayed everything with indentations. When I copied and pasted the XML output here, it got stripped out when I posted. I still hope it is still readable.

[kkobashi]

test.xml

<logged_in_reps>
 <rep id="1">
   <display_name>Dustin</display_name>
   <logged_in_since ts="1272592751">04/29/2010 21:59</logged_in_since>
 </rep>
</logged_in_reps>

test.php

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file("test.xml") or die("feed not loading");
if ($xml->rep[0]->display_name == "Dustin") {
  echo $xml->rep[0]->logged_in_since;
}
?>

Running test.php will print out:

04/29/2010 21:59