SecondCity Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 When you work with XML in a PHP script, are you allowed to have carriage returns in the code to make it more readable? My IDE is complaining about a missing ending or something... <?php //create a template for the XML that's sent as the transaction request$xmlStr = <<<XML<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><document><title>Forty What?</title><from>Joe</from><to>Jane</to><body>I know that's the answer -- but what's the question?</body></document>XML; $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlStr,'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOWARNING); print_r($xml);?> For some reason my formatting from my IDE isn't carrying over, but suffice it to say that I have carriage returns and tabs in my code to make it easier to read... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 Yes you can have whitespace, but if you put it in the XML then you're altering the data. Did you put whitespace before the "XML;"? That's one thing you cannot do: the ending to a heredoc/nowdoc must be the only thing on its line, except optionally a semicolon if it forms the end of a statement (like yours does). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondCity Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share Posted April 10, 2017 Yes you can have whitespace, but if you put it in the XML then you're altering the data. Did you put whitespace before the "XML;"? That's one thing you cannot do: the ending to a heredoc/nowdoc must be the only thing on its line, except optionally a semicolon if it forms the end of a statement (like yours does). That seems to be the issue. I needed this on one line... $xmlStr = <<<XML then my xml then this on the last line XML; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondCity Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share Posted April 10, 2017 Some side questions related to this thread... 1.) Why is spacing lost when I use the [ code ] and [ php ] tags? Usually bbcode preserves spacing. 2.) Why was my var_dump stripped from my reply? I included it in [ code ] and then [ quote ] and each time it was stripped out. 3.) When is it when I "liked" Requenix's response it said i had met my daily quota when I have never liked anyone before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 1. Try using Paste as Plain Text with this editor (it's one of the paste buttons). 2. The forum won't "strip" a var_dump(). Are you sure you copied it? Or maybe you mean print_r()? Because that is in your post... 3. It's a limitation on new users. I've now modified it so you should be able to like a couple posts a day. But if you hit that quota again, don't worry about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondCity Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 1. Try using Paste as Plain Text with this editor (it's one of the paste buttons). 2. The forum won't "strip" a var_dump(). Are you sure you copied it? Or maybe you mean print_r()? Because that is in your post... 3. It's a limitation on new users. I've now modified it so you should be able to like a couple posts a day. But if you hit that quota again, don't worry about it. Requinix, In Post #4 I tried twice to copy and paste the results of my var_dump and when I hit submit (or whatever) the results were stripped out. In you look in any of my posts in this thread you will see no print_r or var_dump results. That is both strange and annoying, because I was trying to show you something to ask a follow up question. I can't imagine that either the code of a var_dump or the results would do any harm to this forum. Then again, I have noticed some weird behavior on this website that I haven't encountered before with other forums - especially those using bbcode. Just sayin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 print_r results? I'm not sure what to say: I've never heard of anyone having this problem before. And I know the forum doesn't remove anything from posts. What other "weird behavior" are you seeing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondCity Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 print_r results? I'm not sure what to say: I've never heard of anyone having this problem before. And I know the forum doesn't remove anything from posts. What other "weird behavior" are you seeing? I found this code yesterday online in the PHP manual... <?php$xmlStr = <<<XML<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><note><to>Tove</to><from>Jani</from><heading>Reminder</heading><body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body></note>XML; $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlStr,'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOWARNING); print_r($xml); var_dump($xml); ?> When I tried to copy and paste the print_r and var_dump results yesterday into my post every time this website stripped the results out. Let's see what happens today... print_r results: SimpleXMLElement Object ( [to] => Tove [from] => Jani [heading] => Reminder [body] => Don't forget me this weekend! ) var_dump results: object(SimpleXMLElement)[1] public 'to' => string 'Tove' (length=4) public 'from' => string 'Jani' (length=4) public 'heading' => string 'Reminder' (length= public 'body' => string 'Don't forget me this weekend!' (length=29) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SecondCity Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 Yesterday or the day before I was unable to paste print_r and var_dump output into this thread. Your website stripped just that part of my post twice in a row. I swear! Anyways, it appears to be working now. Just pointing this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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