[Sussex] PHP and XML

[Mark Harrison]

HTML headers?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Macdonald-Wallace" <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] PHP and XML


> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:46, Gareth Ablett wrote:
> > > Afternoon... :p
> > >
> > > OK, hands up all those who can spot what's wrong with this source
code:
> > > http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/rss/rss.phps and tell me why it
doesn't
> > > produce the same output as
http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/rss/feed.xml
> > > when all I've done is take the same file, and enclosed it in echo()
and
> > > print() functions?
> > >
> >
> > you do relise that what you have created has no use for php at all you
are
> > only printing/echo litiral values.
> >
> > for a database driven output you need a lot more.
>
> Yeah, I realise this, as far as I'm concerned, the XML is the tricky
> part, the MySQL/PHP link has already been written and used in other
> parts of the site to great effect! :P
>
> > but for the browser to work out that its a .xml file you will need to
set
> > the header.
>
> I've now got the document to display as an XML doc, but I can't get my
> parser to reed it, even though it will read an XML file with exactly the
> same content.
>
> hmmm... another misson...
>
> Matt
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