I am wanting to run this scrip so that the code is called as an include_once and then get the a variable and finally prints the items. The page is built by calling 5 different dynamic sections. My Thought was I could include this in the header of the page as a php file: [code] <?php function GetXMLTree ($xmldata) { // we want to know if an error occurs ini_set ('track_errors', '1'); $xmlreaderror = false; $parser = xml_parser_create ('ISO-8859-1'); xml_parser_set_option ($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); xml_parser_set_option ($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0); if (!xml_parse_into_struct ($parser, $xmldata, $vals, $index)) { $xmlreaderror = true; echo "error"; } xml_parser_free ($parser); if (!$xmlreaderror) { $result = array (); $i = 0; if (isset ($vals [$i]['attributes'])) foreach (array_keys ($vals [$i]['attributes']) as $attkey) $attributes [$attkey] = $vals [$i]['attributes'][$attkey]; $result [$vals [$i]['tag']] = array_merge ($attributes, GetChildren ($vals, $i, 'open')); } ini_set ('track_errors', '0'); return $result; } function GetChildren ($vals, &$i, $type) { if ($type == 'complete') { if (isset ($vals [$i]['value'])) return ($vals [$i]['value']); else return ''; } $children = array (); // Contains node data /* Loop through children */ while ($vals [++$i]['type'] != 'close') { $type = $vals [$i]['type']; // first check if we already have one and need to create an array if (isset ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']])) { if (is_array ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']])) { $temp = array_keys ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']]); // there is one of these things already and it is itself an array if (is_string ($temp [0])) { $a = $children [$vals [$i]['tag']]; unset ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']]); $children [$vals [$i]['tag']][0] = $a; } } else { $a = $children [$vals [$i]['tag']]; unset ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']]); $children [$vals [$i]['tag']][0] = $a; } $children [$vals [$i]['tag']][] = GetChildren ($vals, $i, $type); } else $children [$vals [$i]['tag']] = GetChildren ($vals, $i, $type); // I don't think I need attributes but this is how I would do them: if (isset ($vals [$i]['attributes'])) { $attributes = array (); foreach (array_keys ($vals [$i]['attributes']) as $attkey) $attributes [$attkey] = $vals [$i]['attributes'][$attkey]; // now check: do we already have an array or a value? if (isset ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']])) { // case where there is an attribute but no value, a complete with an attribute in other words if ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']] == '') { unset ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']]); $children [$vals [$i]['tag']] = $attributes; } // case where there is an array of identical items with attributes elseif (is_array ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']])) { $index = count ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']]) - 1; // probably also have to check here whether the individual item is also an array or not or what... all a bit messy if ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']][$index] == '') { unset ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']][$index]); $children [$vals [$i]['tag']][$index] = $attributes; } $children [$vals [$i]['tag']][$index] = array_merge ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']][$index], $attributes); } else { $value = $children [$vals [$i]['tag']]; unset ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']]); $children [$vals [$i]['tag']]['value'] = $value; $children [$vals [$i]['tag']] = array_merge ($children [$vals [$i]['tag']], $attributes); } } else $children [$vals [$i]['tag']] = $attributes; } } return $children; } $url = "http://text.dynamicmedia.us/ads/xml_feed.php?p_id=1002&ad_count=10&channel=1&doc_offset=0&keyword=creditcards&limited=0&uip=82.35.20.94&referring_page=http://dynamicmedia.us/index.php"; //URL of the XML FEED $contents = file_get_contents($url); $data = GetXMLTree ($contents); function print_ad_item($item) { echo '<p>'; echo $item['Heading']."<br />\n"; echo $item['URI']."<br />\n"; echo $item['Description']."<br />\n"; echo $item['URL']; echo '</p>'; } function print_line_item($item) { echo '<p>'; echo "<a href=\"{$item['URI']}\" target =\"_blank\" onMouseOver=\"window.status='{$item['URL']}'; return true;\"onMouseOut=\"window.status=''; return true;\">{$item['Heading']}</a><br />\n"; echo '<br />'; } function print_textad_item($item) { echo '<p>'; echo "<a href=\"{$item['URI']}\" target =\"_blank\" onMouseOver=\"window.status='{$item['URL']}'; return true;\"onMouseOut=\"window.status=''; return true;\">{$item['Heading']}</a><br />\n"; echo $item['Description']."<br />\n"; echo '</p>'; } $textad = $data['Ads']['Listing']; ?> [/code] The line: [code] $url = "http://text.dynamicmedia.us/ads/xml_feed.php?p_id=1002&ad_count=10&channel=1&doc_offset=0&keyword=creditcards&limited=0&uip=82.35.20.94&referring_page=http://dynamicmedia.us/index.php"; //URL of the XML FEED [/code] could be inserted in the page as it is built since I need to insert a variable or two - specifically a keyword, the referring page, and the visitors IP address, I thought I could do this outside of the php file i am including in the header. But.... im not sure how that would be done? Then I wanted to insert the following to print the results into 2 different areas a the dynamically created page. <? print_line_item($textad[0]); print_textad_item($textad[1]); print_textad_item($textad[2]); print_textad_item($textad[3]); print_textad_item($textad[4]); print_textad_item($textad[5]); print_textad_item($textad[6]); print_textad_item($textad[7]); print_textad_item($textad[8]); print_textad_item($textad[9]); ?> The problem I have is i only get an error - no other details. I am a total nuuuubie to php and think im a bit over my head on this one. Any help will be greatly appreciated.