Php tied with xml a bit of html logic.

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Php tied with xml a bit of html logic.

tftd

8:42 pm on Sep 10, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hey everybody,

I'm trying to do something that's already done by IPB.
They call it "html logic".
I'll try to explain how it works...
We have a xml file with data inside.
Here is a small example


<html>
<![CDATA[<span><if="$_COOKIE['user']">Hello $_COOKIE['user']</if></span>]]>
</html>

What their xml parser will do after you re-cache the skin is to save some parts of the xml file (containing html) into php files. The <if>$data</if>/<else>$something</else> tags will be replaced with if($data){echo $something} else{echo $nothing}

I want to understand that method of replacing those tags because I'll be needing it. Could somebody give me a hand by giving me some advices/tutorials or pieces of working code ?

Thanks in advance,
tftd

eelixduppy

5:02 am on Sep 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

For something like this you are probably looking for an event-based parser for PHP, so SimpleXML [php.net] is probably someone's first suggestion, it's probably not the best way to get this done. I'd take a look at using something like Expat [google.com] for this project. Once you're able to parse the XML, it shouldn't be too difficult to write PHP files using fwrite [php.net], etc... Take a look and see where you can get.

Good luck.