Re: Extension to return SimpleXML object
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:58:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Extension to return SimpleXML object | ||
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Hi,
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Tony Ser <tser@deltacontrols.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are implementing our own extension and in a lot of cases we would like to
> return complex data.
> XML will be a natural choice except that we don't want to format the complex
> data into string, return the xml string and have the PHP Script parse it
> before manipulating the content. It will be very inefficient.
>
> Wonder if there is a way to return the standard SimpleXML object and the
> script will able to use it right away.
> Or any other suggestion to return complex data ?
Create a class as storage for your complex data? This class can still
have a method exportAsXml, or getAsJsonl or whatever is the desired
format.
Cheers,
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Pierre
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