[SOLVED] Keep XML tags

[socialmatrix]

Hello, please consider following code:

 

$retval = '<value>';

$retval .= $_GET['num1'] + $_GET['num2'];

$retval .= '</value>';

echo "$retval";

 

num1 = 1 and num2 = 2.

 

on the browser, $retval echoes 3 (gets rid of XML tags). I want to modify this code to echo "<value>3</value>". what do I need to do?

 

Thank You, Thekdi

[ratcateme]

it does but the browser tries to phrase the tags so they wont be displayed use firefox and view the source you will find them there

 

Scott.

[genericnumber1]

do

 

echo htmlentities($retval);

[PFMaBiSmAd]

If the file does not have a .xml extension, you will need to add the following line of code to cause the browser to treat the content as xml -

 

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
?>

[socialmatrix]

Thank You Scott, genericnumber1 and PFMaBiSmAd,

 

@Scott: yeah but I was hoping , browse to treat content as XML

 

@genericnumber1: that works . However, display is still HTML. I am hoping to make browser look like what we get via RSS feeds. e.g. http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss . OR even better if you use del.icio.us, they have a service https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/get? this returns XML data. This is what I want to do.

 

@PFMaBiSmAd: I thought your solution would solve above problem. However, it doesn't. Returned content is still HTML.

 

Any mor esuggestions?

 

Thanks a lot again,

Thekdi

[ratcateme]

have you put this at the top

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

make sure you echo them like this

echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";

other wise it will be put as PHP

 

Scott.

[genericnumber1]

Yes, and don't follow my earlier advice if you wish for it to be xml. I thought you just wanted to display xml in an html web page.

[socialmatrix]

Thanks a lot again for consistent help.

 

Something very strange happened,

 

I have

echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";

at the top. But it doesn't get echoed at all.

 

Previously, I had

print '<?xml version="1.0"?>';

This never used print either!

 

Link to my service is: http://azvaishnav.info/app/index.php?method=addIt&num1=1&num2=2

Here I am calling addIt function that adds num1 and num2.

 

Do you think problem might be because I use godaddy? may be I should set up Apache Tomcat?

 

Thank You, Thekdi

[genericnumber1]

No, that echo is coming through okay, but it's a tag and won't be displayed.

 

Also, tomcat is for jsp/servlets, so no... that wouldn't help.

 

this is being echo'd:

</object></layer></span></div></table></body></html><!-- adsok -->
<script language='javascript' src='https://a12.alphagodaddy.com/hosting_ads/gd01.js'></script>

You need to stop that from being sent.

 

Are you sure you put

header('Content-Type: text/xml');

at the top of your script? my browser is still reporting it as text/html

[ratcateme]

if it still wont work try using the header

header('Content-Type: application/xml');

godaddy might handle it differently

 

Scott.

[socialmatrix]

Yeah, this is the first few lines of my script.

 

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/xml');
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";

 

But browser is still reporting it as text/html.

 

Here's the link again.

[socialmatrix]

thank you Scott, genericnumber1, PFMaBiSmAd,

 

I don't know why, but I installed Apache and tried the same file through that with localhost. and It solved my problem.

 

Appreciate your considerations.

Thekdi