PHP Dom and input boxes

<input /> tags are not valid xml?

[RyanM]

Hi,

I have created a class to control my forms, form validation, post backs, etc using the PHP5 DOM. Ok so my code basically is:

$el = $this->doc->getElementByID($id); 
if($el->nodeName == "input") { 
 $el->setAttribute("value", $value);  
}else { //any normal html item 
 $el->nodeValue = ""; 
 $elString = "<" . $el->nodeName; 
 $elString2 = "</" . $el->nodeName . ">"; 
  if ($el->hasAttributes()){ 
   foreach ($el->attributes as $attribute){ 
   $elString .= " " . $attribute->name . "='" . $attribute->value ."'"; 
   } 
  }  
 $elString .= ">"; 
 $toolbar= new DOMDocument(); //PHP 5 DOM 
 $toolbar->loadHTML( $elString . $value . $elString2); 
 //echo $toolbar->saveHTML(); 
 $node = $this->doc->importNode($toolbar->getElementsByTagName($el->nodeName)->item(0),true); 
 $test = $el->parentNode->replaceChild($node, $el); 
} //fi

A bit messy I know, anyway if the nodename is input then I simply ammend the attribute within the node, otherwise I rebuild the entire node (is there a better way of doing this?)

Anyway.

This code works fine on my test machine but the minute I load it up into a live environment it fails to find any nodes which are inputs, it just ignores them, if I change those input fields to textareas then the code works fine. I have read that Input tags are not supported by the php5 DOM, is this so? If so thats a big oversite on their behalf, if not whats wrong with the live server?

Thanks

[eelixduppy]

Hello,

Have you read any of the user contributed notes for DOM XML Functions [us2.php.net]? You may find your answer there.

Sorry for my poor reponse. Just wanted to give you something :)

[StupidScript]

When you say that you change the input fields to textareas and it works, are you changing both the actual form elements and your code (

if($el->nodeName == "textarea") {

), or just the form element types?

string DomNode->node_name ( void )

Returns name of the node. The name has different meanings for the different types of nodes as illustrated in the following table.

From the manual [us3.php.net]. (Sorry, PHP DOM stuff is pretty new ...)

[RyanM]

Hi guys.

I suppose I should have been more specific. Im using the PHP5 DOM rather than Dom XML.

The main problem that im having is that Dom XML's function GetElementByID ignores input boxes.

If I create a simple page with an input box with an id of input1 and then do:

$el = $this->doc->getElementByID("input1"); el returns false.

If I change the input box into a textarea $el returns the correct node.

[RyanM]

Ok on research it seems like this is a bug within PHP 5.1 and has been fixed within 5.2. Unfortunately I cant find PHP 5.2 within in any Debian package repositories, and I dont want to recompile PHP on a live server, so its messy hack time.