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How to collect the output
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:53 am
by dude81
Hi all,
I've this strange problem, I pass a value on to a url, which ofcourse, uses GET Method to catch my value and it retruns me an output of xml, , Now My problem is to collect this xml which is now directly displayed on the browser. I dont know what file of which technolgy the other server responds.
How do I collect this information using php?
Thanks in Advance
Dude
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:01 am
by RobertGonzalez
Uh, go again? You want to capture an XML file? Are you talking about downloading it?
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:19 am
by dude81
Hi,
Yes, Im talking of downloading itself. You can compare the situation with payment gateway where two paramenters are returned. Here instead when I pass the URL , I get the XML output. I need to download this string to a file or can directly pass to my program.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:30 am
by dude81
Ok, I tell you the problem very clearly. I've an application which on submission of a form it puts the data into database, if it finds a certain type of files say an image file, then it takes the image file and passes it to a server which takes the image path as its value
like
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http://server.com?img=http://localhost/pics/2.jpg
When I execute this, I get an xml output on to the browser. The output which is displayed as xml , I need it as a string or as a file.
Also One more doubt, how do I run the url through PHP.
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http://server.com?img=http://localhost/pics/2.jpg
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:15 am
by dude81
Is anybody there here
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:30 am
by kaszu
Using any of these will get the content of the web page (what xml basically is) if thats what you needed:
http://uk.php.net/curl (requires curl library)
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fi ... ntents.php
Before posting next time please
search the forum!
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:00 am
by dude81
Great thanks, I was waiting for this answer. It really helped. Im bit weak in handling files becuase of the kind of usage it comes with always(very less usage).

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:37 am
by feyd
Waiting five hours is absurd. HAVE SOME PATIENCE!