Posted by Alistair Baillie SS2002 on 05/17/05 16:56

Ok, I have done some searching, the new_xmldoc() function was never a valid
PHP function, but it appears to be part of the ZEND Library

See: http://www.zend.com/phpfunc/function.xmldoc.php



"Alistair Baillie SS2002" <abaillie@cis.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:4289f625$1@nntphost.cis.strath.ac.uk...
> Assumint that the XML output will be approximatly the same, just use for
> loops, to add the varying lengths.
>
> IF you mean it will be totally different you could use 3Dimensional
> arrays, and then generate the XML string from that.
>
> other than these 2 methods, I'm afraid I cant help you. sorry.
>
> Example for creating RSS output (not using 3d arrays):
>
>
> <?php
> /****
> * Blog Off.net
> *
> * @author: Alistair Baillie
> * @website: http://www.alistairbaillie.co.uk
> * @version: 1.0
> * @sourcepath: \\BO\
> *
> * The contents of this file and any associated files, including but in no
> way
> * limited to artwork and images, are copyright (c) 2005 Alistair D Baillie
> * Any unauthorised reproduction or distribution is strictly prohibbited!
> ****/
>
> $_BLOGOFF = true;
>
> require("includes/comon.php");
> header("Content-type: text/xml");
>
> // Catch default blog request :)
> if ( $_REQUEST['id'] == 0 ) {
> echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>\n";
> ?>
> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
> <channel>
> <title>Blog Off.net</title>
> <link>http://www.blogoff.net/</link>
> <description>The 5 latest postings to Blog Off.net Journals</description>
> <language>en-gb</language>
>
> <?php
> $query = $db->query("SELECT blogs_id, blogs_datetime, blogs_userid,
> blogs_title, blogs_entry,
> (SELECT Count(*) FROM bo_comments WHERE comments_blogid=row_x.blogs_id)
> as numComments,
> users_displayname FROM bo_blogs row_x, bo_users WHERE ( blogs_private=0
> AND blogs_published=1 AND
> users_id=blogs_userid )
> ORDER BY blogs_datetime DESC LIMIT 5");
>
> if ( $db->numrows( $query ) > 0 ) {
> while ( $theData = $db->fetchrow( $query ) ) {
> ?>
> <item>
> <title><?php echo stripslashes( $theData['blogs_title'] ); ?></title>
> <link>http://www.blogoff.net/index.php?bpost=<?php echo
> $theData['blogs_id']; ?></link>
> <description><?php echo stripslashes( $theData['blogs_entry'] );
> ?></description>
> <dc:creator><?php echo stripslashes( $theData['users_displayname'] );
> ?></dc:creator>
> <dc:date><?php echo date("Y-m-d", $theData['blogs_datetime']);
> ?></dc:date>
> </item>
> <?php
> }
> }
> ?>
> </channel>
> </rss>
> <?php
> }
>
> if ( $_REQUEST['id'] > 0 ) {
> $id = addslashes($_REQUEST['id']);
> echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>\n";
> ?>
> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
> <channel>
> <title>Blog Off.net</title>
> <link>http://www.blogoff.net/</link>
> <description>The 5 latest postings to this persons blog!</description>
> <language>en-gb</language>
>
> <?php
> $query = $db->query("SELECT blogs_id, blogs_datetime, blogs_userid,
> blogs_title, blogs_entry,
> (SELECT Count(*) FROM bo_comments WHERE comments_blogid=row_x.blogs_id)
> as numComments,
> users_displayname FROM bo_blogs row_x, bo_users WHERE ( blogs_private=0
> AND blogs_published=1 AND
> users_id=blogs_userid AND blogs_userid='$id' )
> ORDER BY blogs_datetime DESC LIMIT 5");
>
> if ( $db->numrows( $query ) > 0 ) {
> while ( $theData = $db->fetchrow( $query ) ) {
> ?>
> <item>
> <title><?php echo stripslashes( $theData['blogs_title'] ); ?></title>
> <link>http://www.blogoff.net/index.php?bpost=<?php echo
> $theData['blogs_id']; ?></link>
> <description><?php echo stripslashes( $theData['blogs_entry'] );
> ?></description>
> <dc:creator><?php echo stripslashes( $theData['users_displayname'] );
> ?></dc:creator>
> <dc:date><?php echo date("Y-m-d", $theData['blogs_datetime']);
> ?></dc:date>
> </item>
> <?php
> }
> }
> ?>
> </channel>
> </rss>
> <?php
> }
> ?>
>

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