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Answer 1

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What do you mean with: "does not work"? Are you getting any errors?

[edit] ...

I can reproduce your problem either, I tried the exact same thing as VolkerK:

$r = new XMLReader();
$x = '<?xml version="1.0"?> <data_root>  <data>  <info>value</info>  </data> <action>value</action> </data_root>';
$r->XML($x);
while ($r->read()) { echo $r->nodeType . " - "; }

which produces: 1 - 14 - 1 - 14 - 1 - 3 - 15 - 14 - 15 - 14 - 1 - 3 - 15 - 14 - 15 -

I used: PHP 5.3.2-0.dotdeb.1 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Mar 9 2010 10:14:53)

hoppa 2010-03-17 15:16:24

The code within the while loop is not executing, its as if the read() function is not calling correctly. I have verified by letting the whole program execute, and by placing a `die()` within the while loop that is never accessed.

2010-03-17 15:19:21

Answer 2

A:

I cannot reproduce the behavior (using php 5.3.2/win32 + firefox as the client for the second example).

$request = '<?xml version="1.0"?> <data_root>  <data>  <info>value</info>  </data>  <action>value</action> </data_root>';
$reader = new XMLReader();
$reader->XML($request);
while($reader->read()){
  echo $reader->nodeType, " ";
}
$reader->close();

prints 1 14 1 14 1 3 15 14 15 14 1 3 15 14 15.
Does $_REQUEST['xml'] really contain what you expect it to?

edit: Or another example that actually uses _REQUEST

<?php
if ( isset($_REQUEST['xml']) ) {
  $request = $_REQUEST['xml'];
  $reader = new XMLReader();
  $reader->XML($request);
  while($reader->read()){
    echo $reader->nodeType, " ";
  }
  $reader->close();
  die;
}
$pre = htmlspecialchars(
'<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <data_root>
    <data> 
      <info>value</info>
    </data> 
  <action>value</action>
</data_root>');
?>
<html><head><title>....</title></head><body>
  <form method="post" action="?">
    <div>
      <textarea cols="25" rows="8" name="xml"><?php echo $pre; ?></textarea>
      <br />
      <input type="submit" />
    </div>
  </form>
</body></html>

again 1 14 1 14 1 3 15 14 15 14 1 3 15 14 15 is printed when the form is submitted.

VolkerK 2010-03-17 15:41:55

mmm if i paste my XML into the code as in the first example it works perfectly but if it is coming through from a previous page and a text area like example 2, or when pasted into the URL it is not working, im very mystified by this

2010-03-17 16:05:34

Answer 3

A:

You'll need to confirm a few things:

That your column type within your database is large enough to hold the xml, if it is not it will only store part of it, resulting in a non valid xml 'document' and causing the XML parser to fail.
Check you php.ini folder to make sure that your post_max_size, max_upload_filesize, and memory_limit values are large enough, if they are not, the same issue arrises, php cannot parse it because it is an invalid 'document'

Also, you should probably be using $_POST to retrieve that data, just a better practice.

Rabbott 2010-03-17 15:49:51

Also have a look at the SimpleXml options - the simplexml_load_file is another option, which you may have better luck with.

Rabbott 2010-03-17 15:51:34

Answer 4

A:

ok, major redfaced coder here, having made some changes to my dev environment, i installed a new version of php yesterday, and magic_quotes_gpc was set to 'on' thus escaping the quotes in the XML and causing the problem

thank you for your assistance

2010-03-17 16:36:28

If it is your development server set error\_reporting=E\_ALL (or higher), too. You would have gotten warning messages from the xmlreader about the malformed document then ;-)

VolkerK 2010-03-17 18:03:12

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