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write contents of output to xml file and post to a website

I have the following code:

<?
  echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">';
  $filenamein = "urls4.txt";
  $urlfile =  @fopen($filenamein, "r") or die("Couldn't open url.txt");
  while (!feof($urlfile)) {
   $line = fgets($urlfile);
   echo '   <url> 
        <loc>' . $line ; 
		echo '</loc>
        <lastmod>2013-06-06</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>';
	
  }
	?>

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I want to save the output to a an xml file and then post it to a website. How do I do this?

TvMpt

$fp = fopen('urls4.txt', 'r');

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<allurls></allurls>');

while ($line = fgetcsv($fp)) {
   $node = $xml->addChild('url');
   $node->addChild('loc', $line[0]);
   $node->addChild('lastmod', $line[1]);
   $node->addChild('changefreq', $line[2]);
   $node->addChild('priority', $line[3]);
}

echo $xml->saveXML();

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I assume that txt file have values like:
loc1,2013-12-12,daily,0.8
loc2,2012-12-11,daily,1

jello32

ASKER

No the txt file has urls in the form of
http://www.example.com/item1.svg
http://www.example.com/item2.svg

TvMpt

but where is the aditional info? like lastmod, changefreq and others?

jello32

ASKER

it gets created in my original code. see above. it's all the same for each url. last mod date is 6/6/2013, change frequency is daily.

TvMpt

...
while ($line = fgetcsv($fp)) {
   $node = $xml->addChild('url');
   $node->addChild('loc', $line[0]);
   $node->addChild('lastmod', 6/6/2013);
   $node->addChild('changefreq', 'daily');
   $node->addChild('priority', '0.8');
}

...

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jello32

ASKER

how do I post it to a url?

jello32

ASKER

also how do i specify the filename i want it saved as?

TvMpt

instead echo use

$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $xml->saveXML());
fclose($fh);

jello32

ASKER

I tried what you suggested but it puts 0.000496770988574 as the date for lastmod. Also how would I put line breaks in as in my original code? And how to I post it to a website?

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Ray Paseur

You might want to consider posting a few different questions here at EE. It looks like you have several moving parts that need consideration.

puts 0.000496770988574 as the date for lastmod

When you're using DATETIME values, the ISO-8601 standard should be respected for internal representations of dates and also during data interchange. This article explains how it works.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html

New line characters in XML documents can be produced by the PHP_EOL constant. It is predefined and context-aware, so it will work correctly no matter what OS you're using. You can use string concatenation to add it to the end of each line of XML. And, of course, XML does not care about whitespace between tags, so you could just as well omit it.

"How do I post to a website?" is a bit larger question. In client/server (web) applications, "post" is a term of art, and it seems out of place in your question here. I don't know that it is out of place, it just seems that way. You might want to add a new question to EE giving us an example of what you want to do with the XML file.

If you're new to PHP, this book is an excellent learning resource.
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-Edition/dp/0321833899

Best regards, ~Ray

jello32

ASKER

thanks!