XML driven php apache site

[Gooseman]

Hi,

I'm experimenting with a php based parser that displays each page from
separate XML data files. Ideally, the site will be defined by xml
pages instead of php or html pages, all parsed and displayed by the
same piece of php code.

How can I implement this so that when a user clicks on a link (to an
xml document), the cetrally located templated parses it and displays
the new page, maintaining the site directory structure and being
search engine friendly.

Thanks

[Tony Marston]

How are you displaying these XML documents? As XML, or converted into HTML?

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"Gooseman" <da***@danworld.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm experimenting with a php based parser that displays each page from
separate XML data files. Ideally, the site will be defined by xml
pages instead of php or html pages, all parsed and displayed by the
same piece of php code.

How can I implement this so that when a user clicks on a link (to an
xml document), the cetrally located templated parses it and displays
the new page, maintaining the site directory structure and being
search engine friendly.

Thanks

[Nathan Gardiner]

Gooseman wrote:

Hi,

I'm experimenting with a php based parser that displays each page from
separate XML data files. Ideally, the site will be defined by xml
pages instead of php or html pages, all parsed and displayed by the
same piece of php code.

How can I implement this so that when a user clicks on a link (to an
xml document), the cetrally located templated parses it and displays
the new page, maintaining the site directory structure and being
search engine friendly.

Thanks

Have a read of the mod_mime directives for Apache. You should specifically
have a look at the SetHandler and Action directives. You can place these in
<Directory> or <Location> blocks (or even globally).

Using these directives, you can force all requests to a particular PHP
script, and then use the REQUEST_URI to determine which XML file the PHP
script should parse.
Nathan

[Wolfgang Ulmer]

Hi,

How can I implement this so that when a user clicks on a link (to an
xml document), the cetrally located templated parses it and displays
the new page, maintaining the site directory structure and being
search engine friendly.

For Apache 1.3x:

AddType application/x-xml-parse .xml
Action application/x-xml-parse "/link/to/xml/parser/xml.php?file="

Put this two lines either in a .htaccess file or into a Directory
context block in httpd.conf. If a .xml is requested by the browser, the
web server calls xml.php and sets the requested filename as the ?file=
parameter. That should do it.

Wolfgang Ulmer