[SOLVED] PHP returning XML - but isnt in XML format

[PC Nerd]

Hi,

 

Im learnign AJAX - teaching myself, and Ive figured out that the PHP script isnt sending my data in XML format.

 

My code is in following.

<!--<xml version = '1.0'encoding = 'UTF-8' standalone = 'yes'>-->
<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">
<?php

while($ROW = mysqli_fetch_assoc($QUERY)) {
echo "<student id='".$ROW['Student_ID']."'>\n";
echo "<name>".$ROW['Name']."</name>\n";
...

 

 

ive had to block out the rest of the loop because it contains private ingformation - but I can garentee that it is returned as appearing as XML - ie the correct tags, and viewd in source etc.

 

 

for those tha tknow AJAX - the responseXML is null, and then responseText returns what I want it to -= only its not in teh XML format.

 

I have a feeling that its with the <xml> declaration at the topm but im not great with XML and Im not sure if there is an issue with that.

 

Thanks for and all help

[ratcateme]

i dont no much about phrasing xml in javascript but i thourght you had yo open it with something like this

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

insted of

<!--<xml version = '1.0'encoding = 'UTF-8' standalone = 'yes'>-->

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">

Scott.

 

[PC Nerd]

hi

 

i tried removeing the <!-- --> line but it made no difference.  I had commented out my original xml tag because i thoguth the current one might work better = however there is no difference.

 

any other suggestions?

 

thanks for oyu help so far

[ratcateme]

no you need to add the ? so this has ?'s at the start and end

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

 

Scott.

[PC Nerd]

thats an issue- because its defined outside of PH - meanign tht php interprets it as an openin gphp tag - shot tag.

 

ill play around with echoing it and escaping characters adn il let oyu knwo who i i go.

 

thaks

[ratcateme]

cant you just change the top of your code to this

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?php

while($ROW = mysqli_fetch_assoc($QUERY)) {
echo "<student id='".$ROW['Student_ID']."'>\n";
echo "<name>".$ROW['Name']."</name>\n";
...

 

Scott.

[PC Nerd]

no

 

my php is interpreting that as <? PHP CODE ?>  - ie shot tags

ive echoed it out and escaped characters and its still not working.

 

eg:

 

the page that AJAx connects to that returns XML  is returnData.php

 

if i go to it on firefox and i view the data in page source its all there.  if i view page info in firefox... then i get: text/html

if thats an issue - or its jsut firefox handling the xml then i dont know - but its just somethign I noticed.

 

thaks for the suggestions- any other ideas?

 

[ratcateme]

i see what you saying now i ran the code and got a error because of short tags

but it works fine if i out this instead.

<?php

echo '
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>';

?>

 

Scott.

[PC Nerd]

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

 

is what i have - and it works fine  - as output.

 

however im still getting it as html or text rather than XML - as noted previously.

 

thanks anyway

[ratcateme]

sorry i wasn't reading properly just add this at the top of your script to tell it it is XML

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

 

Scott.

[PC Nerd]

SOLVED!!!!

 

thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou

 

thats fantastic

 

looks like its now returning an XMl object.... now for me to generate hundreds of errors while learnign how to use it lol

 

thanks