Hi,
Thanks for a cool product and good docs, I am struggling with one problem slooooooow performance.
I am reading XML from a URL and displaying 3 records on a web page and it takes 15 (or more) seconds for the page to render.
Without the XML the page renders instantaneously.
Here's the code:
<?php
header("Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8");
require("MagicParser.php");
function myRecordHandler($deal)
{
echo "<h4>".$deal["HOTELNAME"]."</h4>";
echo "<img src=' ".$deal["THUMBNAILURL"]." ' />";
echo "<p>".$deal["PRICE" ]. " Per Night" , "</p>";
}
$url ="{link saved}";
MagicParser_parse($url,"myRecordHandler","xml|deals/deal/");
?>
Hello Adam,
I just ran a test fetching the URL independantly of Magic Parser, and the script took the same time to run; so in this instance it is presumably a delay in the production of the feed rather than your handling of it - and it is possible that the provide doesn't intend this feed to be used in "real time" - in other words you would normally request the feed as part of a CRON process and insert the data into a database for subsequent display.
Here's the test code I wrote (replace the URL with the correct URL of course):
<?php$url ="{link saved}";
$fp = fopen($url,"r");
while(!feof($fp)) $xml .= fread($fp,1024);
fclose($fp);
print "Done.";
?>
As an alternative to using a database, another option is to cache the file locally, so you are only making a request to the remote server say, once per day. I've documented my preferred caching method in the following thread which may help:
http://www.magicparser.com/node/136
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
David.