Read fsockopen result?

[ruraldev]

Can anyone help me print the output from fsockopen, I create a variable called $var

 

It returns an xml format

 

<tag>

    <element1>one</element1>

    <element2>two</element2>

    <element3>three</element3>

</tag>

 

I can output the values onetwothree using fputs and fgets but I need to be able to display just a single element, I am sure this is simple but I still can't work it out.

 

Hope someone can help.

 

Thanks

 

Gordon

[xyph]

SimpleXML is probably your best bet.

[ruraldev]

I tried simplexml_load_string and simplexml_load_file but neither worked.

 

Should I be using something else?

 

Gordon

[xyph]

'Neither worked' is a horrible error report. I can't help you without more details.

 

I assure you, SimpleXML is probably the ideal solution to this, unless you don't mind manually parsing with RegEx

[ruraldev]

Sorry, error is:

 

Warning: simplexml_load_string() expects parameter 1 to be string

 

Same with load_file

 

I see that fsockopen outputs a file pointer but how do i get the info from it?

 

[xyph]

Use fgets, like you did to display it.

[ruraldev]

I couldn't find a way to select the different elements using fgets, is it possible?

 

[boompa]

Is it really so hard to just post the code that's not working, rather than this useless "back and forth"? It's probably fixed in one post if you provide that.

[xyph]

I couldn't find a way to select the different elements using fgets, is it possible?

 

 

Use the results from fgets to generate your SimpleXML instance.

 

This might be beyond your current PHP abilities.

[ruraldev]

Code is below, however it wouldn't work live as the remote machine is behind a firewall and only certain IP's are allowed through. It does get a response as I can see it but it is just a single long string.

 

You may well be correct that this is beyond my abilities!

 

 

$var = fsockopen($svr_add,$svr_port,$errno,$errstr,$svr_timeout);

 

if(!$var)

    {

    echo "Connextion Failed\n";

    exit();

    }

else

    {

fputs ($var, $xml_data);

 

echo fgets ($var, 128);

 

fclose($var);

    }