Posted by rlee0001 on 11/18/23 11:44

David,

PHP is not a translation language, it's a full blown programming
language with full file IO capabilities so PHP can certainly handle the
task at hand. The PHP manual is a great place to look. For example, see
here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php (that is the PHP
function to open an external file for reading or writing).

I think what you want to do is populate a MySQL database with your XML
data. Do you know how to do this? Then create a PHP script to run
queries against the database to create the HTML pages. Also, since you
are not running these translations on the server, you are not in any
way restricted to using PHP. If you have Microsoft Office, you could
just as easily use a native windows application (your_program.exe) and
an access database for example. That would probably be easier as there
is less overhead involved for you. MySQL is a big pill to swallow for
just one app. :o)

Since you don't know much PHP you might want to hire a professional
coder to implement the project. Your project really isn't that complex
but the amount of experience its going to take to do this yourself is
way beyond what I can teach you. Rent-A-Coder is a good place to check.
I've been programming on there for a while and most of the guys there
are very smart and not too expensive. I'd probably charge in the $500
range and the project shouldn't take more than a day or two to
complete. Don't pay more than that.

http://www.rentacoder.com/

My coder username on rent-a-coder is rlee0001 and you have my offer
above.

If you really want to do this yourself, look through the manual at
http://www.php.net/ (this is where you download PHP too). If you need
help setting up PHP and MySQL and using the manual let me know and I'll
try to help.

-Robert

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