Parsing XML file

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Suzanne,

Would you mind using pastebin to post the code for the xml_get function?  The txt file is not working.

Thanks

Hi

Here is the xml_get.php include file!

<?

// if not called by mom exit!

if ( !defined ( 'IS_INCLUDED' ) )
{
      exit ();
}

// this will begin the XML paser
// it looks for a certain structure and prosess the feed based on what
// type of structure it has found!


function process_xml ( $in )
{
      $xml = xml_parser_create ( 'ISO-8859-1' );
      xml_parser_set_option ( $xml, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1 );
      xml_parse_into_struct ( $xml, $in, $value, $name );
      xml_parser_free ( $xml );

      $x = 0;

      $part = array ();

      if ( !empty ( $value[$x]['attributes'] ) )
      {
            $part[$value[$x]['tag']][]['ATTRIBUTES'] = $value[$x]['attributes'];
            $name = ( count ( $part[$value[$x]['tag']] ) - 1 );
              $part[$value[$x]['tag']][$name] =  array_merge ( $part[$value[$x]['tag']][$name], get_extended ( $value, $x ) );
      }
      else
      {
            $part[$value[$x]['tag']][] = get_extended ( $value, $x );
      }

      return ( $part );
}

// this is called by process_xml and it is a recursive function that processes
// each part of the XML feed, if the array is multi demensional it recalls it's
// self so that it can merge each multi demensional array into a single element
// type array! There are a few other ways you can do this, but keeping it generic
// will allow you to do (2) things, (1) use the least amout of server resources
// and (2), be able to use these 2 same functions to process any XML feed you want!

function get_extended ( $value, &$x )
{
      $node = array ();

        if ( !empty ( $value[$x]['value'] ) )
      {
            $node['VALUE'] = $value[$x]['value'];
      }

        while ( ++$x < count ( $value ) )
      {
            switch ( $value[$x]['type'] )
            {
                  case 'cdata':
                        if ( !empty ( $node['VALUE'] ) )
                        {
                              $node['VALUE'] .= $value[$x]['value'];
                        }
                        else
                        {
                              $node['VALUE'] = $value[$x]['value'];
                        }
                  break;
                  case 'complete':
                        if ( !empty ( $value[$x]['attributes'] ) )
                        {
                              $node[$value[$x]['tag']][]['ATTRIBUTES'] = $value[$x]['attributes'];
                                  $name = ( count ( $node[$value[$x]['tag']] ) - 1 );
                              $node[$value[$x]['tag']][$name]['VALUE'] = !empty ( $value[$x]['value'] ) ? $value[$x]['value'] : '';
                        }
                        else
                        {
                              $node[$value[$x]['tag']][]['VALUE'] = !empty ( $value[$x]['value'] ) ? $value[$x]['value'] : '';
                        }
                  break;
                  case 'open':
                        if ( !empty ( $value[$x]['attributes'] ) )
                        {
                              $node[$value[$x]['tag']][]['ATTRIBUTES'] = $value[$x]['attributes'];
                              $name = ( count ( $node[$value[$x]['tag']] ) - 1 );
                              $node[$value[$x]['tag']][$name] = array_merge ( $node[$value[$x]['tag']][$name], get_extended ( $value, $x ) );
                        }
                        else
                        {
                              $node[$value[$x]['tag']][] = get_extended ( $value, $x );
                        }

                  break;
                  case 'close':
                  return ( $node );
            }
      }
}

?>


Suzanne

Suzanne,

What am I doing incorrectly here?

function XML_Read($file_name)
{
      // open the XML file and read the contents
      $fp = fopen($file_name, "r");
      
      if(!($fp))
      {
            // an error occured opening the file
            die("unable to process XML file");
      }

      // read the contents of the XML file
      $xml_contents = fread($fp, filesize($file_name));
      fclose($fp);
      $rev_val process_xml($xml_contents);
      return $ret_val
}

It is not returning the same stucture that you displayed.

my bad, error in my XML file, works wonderfully, comment will be accepted as answer