Submitted by visserlabs on Sun, 2009-12-27 04:02 in Magic Parser
Hi,
I have an XML file which I'd very much to bring across the attribute names (e.g. stockCode, stockName, unitWeight, etc.) as row headers in my outputted CSV file. How can I do this?
The $record key values with a hyphen are attributes - so in the above example, STOCKWEIGHT would be an attribute of the <product> element.
If you're not sure; perhaps you could email me an example or link to the XML that you're working with; and a description of which fields you would like exporting to CSV and i'll help you out. The output can either be to a file as in the example from the other thread (don't forget to make sure that PHP can write to the output file) or simply output the CSV to the browser / force for download.
Perhaps the easiest way to make sure that PHP can write your CSV file is instead of using...
$csv = "file.csv";
...create a sub-directory called "output", and then make that directory writable by all users. The easiest way to do this is normally with your FTP program. Right-click on the new folder and look for Permissions... or maybe Properties... and then Permissions. Then give WRITE access to all users - Owner / Group / World. Finally, change the above line to:
$csv = "output/file.csv";
I'm on the road today but will be back online later this afternoon if you require any more assistance...
Hello,
Have you already made progress with your XML to CSV conversion but without the attributes? You'll find a very basic XML to CSV script here...
http://www.magicparser.com/node/464
...and that should include all values in each $record of your XML source - which will include both regular element values and attributes.
If you only wanted to output specific fields; then instead of:
fwrite($csv,implode(",",$record)."\n");...you could use something like:
fwrite($csv,$record["NAME"].",");fwrite($csv,$record["PRODUCT-STOCKCODE"].",");
fwrite($csv,$record["PRODUCT-UNITWEIGHT"]."\n");
The $record key values with a hyphen are attributes - so in the above example, STOCKWEIGHT would be an attribute of the <product> element.
If you're not sure; perhaps you could email me an example or link to the XML that you're working with; and a description of which fields you would like exporting to CSV and i'll help you out. The output can either be to a file as in the example from the other thread (don't forget to make sure that PHP can write to the output file) or simply output the CSV to the browser / force for download.
Perhaps the easiest way to make sure that PHP can write your CSV file is instead of using...
$csv = "file.csv";...create a sub-directory called "output", and then make that directory writable by all users. The easiest way to do this is normally with your FTP program. Right-click on the new folder and look for Permissions... or maybe Properties... and then Permissions. Then give WRITE access to all users - Owner / Group / World. Finally, change the above line to:
$csv = "output/file.csv";I'm on the road today but will be back online later this afternoon if you require any more assistance...
Regards,
David
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