Stage 2) Bring on the PHP
Ok, so this is all well and good, but It??s static mark-up, I want to use PHP to generate the XML dynamically, so lets look at the next example, phpbuilder.php:
<?php
/*
I want to print out a greeting to a number of
countries, not just the World, so in no particular order
*/
$countries = array (
"UK", "USA", "France", "Germany", "Holland",
"Belgium", "Spain", "Denmark", "Finland",
"Sweden", "Japan", "China", "New Zealand", "Australia"
);
//Now open up a file on the server called dynamic-phpbuilder.xml
$handle = fopen("./dynamic-phpbuilder.xml","w");
/*
Now we build up a string that we can save out to our file, notice that the
"<?" tags have been separated so we don't confuse the PHP interpreter.
*/
$tofile = "<" . "?" . "xml version="1.0"" . "?" . ">n";
$tofile .= "<" . "?" . "xml-stylesheet href="dynamic-phpbuilder.xsl" type="text/xsl"" . "?" . ">n";
$tofile .= "<" . "?" . "cocoon-process type="xslt"" . "?" . ">nn";
$tofile .= "<phpbuilder>n";
$tofile .= "t<heading>This is a Dynamically Generated XML that has been Transformed using XSLT</heading>n";
/*
We now do a very simple loop and output our
greeting to all the countries in our example array:
*/
for ($x=0;$x<sizeof($countries);$x++) {
$tofile .= "t<message>n";
$tofile .= "tt<greeting>" . $countries[$x] . "</greeting>n";
$tofile .= "t</message>n";
}
$tofile .= "</phpbuilder>n";
//Write the string to our file and close the handle
fwrite($handle,$tofile);
fclose($handle);
//Finally we redirect to the newly created dynamic-phpbuilder.xml file.
header("Location: dynamic-phpbuilder.xml");
?>
