Is it possible to parse the XML like this:
$ch = curl_init('http://www.whatever.com/abc.xml');
curl_setopt(...)
:
:
$content = curl_exec($ch);
MagicParser($content,"myRecordHandler");
function myRecordHandler($record){
... print_r($record);
}
It does not work, any ideas ?
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
set_time_limit(0);
require("MagicParser.php");
///// grab the XML file from a dedicated URL ////////////////
//$today = date('YmD');
$today = "20051020";
$ch = curl_init('[snip]');
curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
$content = curl_exec ( $ch );
curl_close ( $ch );
echo $content; // this echo out some XML data
$xml = array();
MagicParser_parse($content,"myRecordHandler");
function myRecordHandler($record){
global $xml;
$xml[] = $record;
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r($xml); // this return nothing
echo "</pre>";
?>
Can you post a snippet of the value of $content as this will help understand what the parser has made of it....
put this in IE, and it will show some XML,
that's what I am getting in that curl_init
thanks for your help
https://208.210.197.183/ahe/webservices/CustomerWebService.aspx?username=getPica&password=&lastupdatedate=20051020&action=GetCustomer
Ok, the Parser is fine with it...
http://www.magicparser.com/demo?fileID=43A88883017A3&record=1
(will be deleted shortly)
So, something else is the problem, i'll have another look at your code...
The next debug step I would take is to set a break point in your record handler function; so you would have:
<?php
function myRecordHandler($record)
{
dummy();
}
?>
This will cause your script to fail with unknown function dummy(). This will prove that the parser is working and calling myRecordHandler()...
$xml = array();
MagicParser_parse($content,"myRecordHandler");
function myRecordHandler($record){
global $xml;
$xml[] = $record;
}
echo "";
print_r($xml); // this return nothing
echo "";
The code is short, only few lines, it is strange,
please help
I see the problem....
You are passing a string value to MagicParser - it is expecting a filename (which can be a local file or a URL).
What you need to do is write the output to a file and then pass the filename of the local temporary file to MagicParser. I'll put together some code to do that, check back here in a few minutes...
Have you created temporary files before? You will need a directory that has write access. It may be that /tmp is writable on your system, so I would try something like this:
Please study the code I have added between your curl retrieval and the call to MagicParser - it will write try to write a file to the hard disk of your server so please understand what the code is doing first! You will also need to replace [SNIP] with the correct URL of course. I suggest that you just study this code and add the changes necessary to your current version.
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
set_time_limit(0);
require("MagicParser.php");
///// grab the XML file from a dedicated URL ////////////////
//$today = date('YmD');
$today = "20051020";
$ch = curl_init('[snip]');
curl_setopt ( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
$content = curl_exec ( $ch );
curl_close ( $ch );
echo $content; // this echo out some XML data
// create a temporary filename
$tempfile = "/tmp/test.xml";
// open the temporary file with write access
$fp = fopem($tempfile,"w");
// write the XML to the temporary file
fwrite($fp,$content);
// close the file
fclose($fp);
// now pass the temporary file to Magic Parser
$xml = array();
MagicParser_parse($tempfile,"myRecordHandler");
function myRecordHandler($record){
global $xml;
$xml[] = $record;
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r($xml); // this return nothing
echo "</pre>";
?>
Hi,
As curl is just a content retrieval mechanism there is no reason why this should not work. Housekeeping out of the way first, it may be a copy'n'paste error but I notice that the call to MagicParser_parse() is missing the _parse component...! You need:
MagicParser_parse($content,"myRecordHandler");
(additional required part in bold)
That aside, the thing to do here is to debug by inspecting the value of $content after your call to curl_exec() to ensure that you have retrieved a valid XML document. I would do something like this:
<?php// ... rest of your script ...
$content = curl_exec($ch);
print "<textarea rows='10' cols='80'>";
print htmlentities($content);
print "</textarea>";
exit();
?>
This will enable you to prove visually that you have a valid XML document before trying to do the parse.
Hope this helps!
David.