Hi there.
I've been using MagicParser for the last few hours and I just LOVE IT. It's made my development efforts so much easier (since I'm not a programmer!). :)
I've created a webpage where I want the user will need to enter in their user name and password to access a secured XML feed. I was wondering if this is the best way to do it - or is there a more elegant way?
<?php
require("MagicParser.php");
if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Connect To XML API"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
echo 'You have cancelled your authorization session.';
exit;
} else {
echo "<p>Hello {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']}.</p>";
echo "<p>You entered {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']} as your password.</p>";
$filename = "https://{$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']}:{$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']}@password_protected_website_where_xml_is_located";
function myRecordHandler($record)
{
print_r($record);
}
MagicParser_parse($filename,"myRecordHandler");
}
?>
Hello,
That looks fine - perfectly minimal, and doesn't rely on cookies or any other form of potentially by-passable authentication since the user must know the username / password of the remote site. Looks good to me!
Cheers,
David.