[Sussex] PHP and XML

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

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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