Re: PHP and XML

On Thu, November 23, 2006 6:57 am, onewaylife wrote: > I am novice in PHP & XML, while trying I am creating a small > application > i.e. Address Book. > In this I am using Apache2, PHP5 and XML no database is used. I have > FC5 > machines. but I am unable to store the files in XML. If any one share > their > experience in this by providing Examples or tutorials etc... > So far I have found tutorial related to porting the information of > data from > MySQL to XML and then php with help of DOM. You could just slap the whole address book into a single file with: http://php.net/file_put_contents http://php.net/file_get_contents This, however, will get unwieldy for more than a few hundred addresses... To "fix" that, you're going to have to basically re-implement a bunch of functionality that is pretty much the nuts and bolts of a database, so I'd suggest that maybe your inexperience is causing you to make a Bad Choice for how to go about making an address book in the first place. :-) Note that you could also store it all in a database, and then provide an XML output for, say, RSS or other portable reasons. And while it's "more" work, the extra effort of the DB will actually be LESS work than Doing It Right with just the raw file system access you propose. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?