I need a xml parser script

[newholborn]

Hello all. After a thousand experiments I got really bored. Could a kind person who knows php write a simple script returning the contents of a remote xml file?

I don't know PHP, and honestly I don't have the time to learn right now. Thanks in advance.

[pbmods]

Heya, Newholborn.

You posted this in the Articles section. I'll go ahead and move it to the Forum where an Expert will be more likely to find it.

TSDN members are expected to write their own code. We're happy to help you out if you have specific questions, but you can't realistically expect someone to do your coding for you on a free forum.

[bergy]

Well, I'm not going to write the parser for you, but I can tell you how to get a remote file in 5-6 lines using cURL. Below is an example, I'm sure you can find an XML parser somewhere on the internet.

[php]
$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
$url = "http://www.somesite.com/xml.xml";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$str = curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
echo $str;
[/php]
That PHP would echo the remote file's contents.

[pbmods]

There's an XML parser built into PHP.

[newholborn]

pmbods, I understand, but I really can't bother learning php right now, I have an Ajax demo to build so I can get a new job, and I need the php file to make it work. I won't have to learn php for this job, its just a temporary thing. btw, sorry about misplacing the post but the Forums and Articles tabs are almost identical :P

Anyway, the script didn't work, I get a javascript 404 error and i don't get it. Plus, I'm new to the forums and I dont know if i should post in the Ajax, or the PHP section :P

Oof, I don't know what to do :P

Cheers.

[pbmods]

Can you write the backend in ASP (or whatever language you are comfortable with)?