announcements.xml parsing via php?

[senad]

I'm trying to parse and display xml announcements on my front page.

 

I've coded the following in:

 

                <?php
/* load a xml file to memory & parse it */
$xml_file = file_get_contents("https://manage.pingpros.com/announcements.xml"); 

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_file); 

/* We are done, output time */
foreach ($xml->item as $msg) {
   echo("<a href='{$msg->link}'->{$msg->title}</a> <br />{$msg->description}<hr />");
}
?>

 

However nothing is showing. Am I missing something here or shouldn't simplexml_load_string work without any flaws here?

 

PHP Version 5.2.6

Simplexml support enabled

Revision $Revision: 1.151.2.22.2.39 $

Schema support enabled

 

 

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

[BAJI26]

Wouldn't it be easier to add this to your page:

 

 
<?php
[color=red]include("support/dbconnect.php");
include("support/includes/functions.php");[/color]
$query = "SELECT * FROM tblannouncements WHERE published='on' ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 0,3"; 
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$id = $data["id"];
$date = $data["date"];
$title = $data["title"];
$announcement = $data["announcement"];
$date = fromMySQLDate($date);
 echo("<p><font color=#cccccc>$date</font> - <b>$title</b><br>$announcement</p>");
}
?>

[Austdata]

I'm trying to do a similar thing but I didn't think I could use PHP code in XHTML 1.0 document. Is it possible to put PHP code in an XHTML 1.0 document?

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

[Austdata]

Apparently it can be done. Dutchnet posted a response here but it's clearly not as simple as I thought. The code I have is almost identical to BAJI26's example but it displays nothing when I tested it.

[Austdata]

Went away to get the example but took longer than fifteen minutes: http://www.a1hosting.com.au/test.html

 

It shows a little text under the news heading, which is where I'd like to put it and replace the hard coded stuff I have so far.

[Matt]

XHTML is an HTML markup language. PHP is the server side language. So you can use PHP in a file with XHTML markup - but to execute PHP code the file needs to have a .php extension - simply change test.html to test.php

 

Matt

[Drac0]

Although, if you have access to your httpd.conf file, you can use AddType to allow php code to be imbedded in a .html or .htm file as well.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm

[Austdata]

Hey, that's terrific. I have a whole bunch of errors there now. I have something to work with! Thanks Matt.

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

[Austdata]

Hey, that's terrific. I have a whole bunch of errors there now. I have something to work with! Thanks Matt.

 

I worked out what the errors were, I'm developing the new site on my existing server. So the code can't work when it expecting the same password and user...

 

I'll fix that when I move it over...

 

Thanks again Matt.

 

Cheers,

 

Mike