ansaurus

Question

PHP XML Object To HTML Friendly Text String?

Answer 1

A:

EDIT:

Basic print out of the xml. You may need to adjust to fit the actual xml it was hard to read since it was posted unformatted. Youll also protentialy need to handle nested elements i suppose which would require you to loop through the children. and i suppose attributes as well if you have any... You can refer to the SimpleXML docs for more detail on this.

foreach($xml->Body as $element => $value)
{
  echo "$element: $children";
}

Umm use htmlspecialchars or htmlentities to encode the string...? that way it will display as "code" in ana html email.

prodigitalson 2010-01-18 13:41:40

I know of this, but again, the subject is an object not simply a string

Sjwdavies 2010-01-18 13:46:37

Whats a `var_dump` of the object look like?

prodigitalson 2010-01-18 13:54:06

Apologies.htmlspecialchars has worked and it now appears as the XML string.Is there a function that can let me spit this out with all it's indents intact?

Sjwdavies 2010-01-18 13:59:27

Just echo it inside a `<pre>`. That should work assuming the mail client supports the tag... i think most do.

prodigitalson 2010-01-18 14:00:23

I've got <pre> wrapped round it anyway, but it must be being ignored for some reason.

Sjwdavies 2010-01-18 14:04:42

hmmm... yeah im not sure then. youre not running the `<pre>` through the escaping functions too right? Another option might be to send it as an attachment of some sort... i know in my client if there is an html attachment it generally displays it in the body of the email minus any non local images...

prodigitalson 2010-01-18 14:10:57

Thanks for your help but i'm going to give up on this.I posted the string exactly as it is outputted on my screen.I tried what you suggested, and the following returned an EMPTY strig:$xml = new SimpleXmlElement($client->__getLastRequest());foreach($xml->Body as $element => $value){ $test .= "$element: $children";}$_SESSION['test'] = $test;

Sjwdavies 2010-01-18 15:33:55

Answer 2

A:

You could use http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php eg:

<?php
$xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>...</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>';
$config = array(
            'indent'         => true,
            'output-xml'     => true,
            'input-xml'     => true,
            'wrap'         => '1000');

// Tidy
$tidy = new tidy();
$tidy->parseString($xml, $config, 'utf8');
$tidy->cleanRepair();
echo tidy_get_output($tidy);
?>

but you have to install the php extension first.

Timothy 2010-01-20 12:51:48

ansaurus

tags:

views:

answers:

PHP XML Object To HTML Friendly Text String?

related questions