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@vitronauthorJun 04.2009 — #Hey Aaron,

Here's the function I use to read the xml data into an array:-

[code=php]function getXmlData($xml_data) {
 $n=0;
 $ar=array();
 $parser = xml_parser_create();
 xml_parse_into_struct($parser,$xml_data,$vals,$index) or die(xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser)));
 xml_parser_free($parser);
 $ttags=array();
 for($n=0;$n<=count($vals)-1;$n++) {
 if(trim($vals[$n][value])) {
 $ar[$vals[$n][tag]][count($ar[$vals[$n][tag]])]=$vals[$n][value];
 $ttags[$vals[$n][tag]]=$vals[$n][tag];
 }
 }
 $tags=array();
 foreach($ttags as $tagi) { array_push($tags,$tagi); }
 return $ar;
 }[/code]

Note, that the above code I found on the internet, dont remember where though because that was a long time ago.

To output this in html, I use this (assuming im getting my blog posts):-

[code=php]$myar=getXmlData($blogposts_data);
 for($i=0;$i<=count($myar[TITLE]);$i++) {
 $title=$myar[TITLE][$i];
 $text=$myar[DESCRIPTION][$i];
 $link=$myar[LINK][$i];
 $category=$myar[CATEGORY][$i];
 $author=$myar[AUTHOR][$i];
 $pubDate=$myar[PUBDATE][$i];
 if(isset($_GET['cat'])){
 if($_GET['cat'] != $category){
 continue;
 }
 }
 if($title) {
 $pagedata .= <<<EOF
 <div class="blog_posts">
 <h3>$title</h3>
 $text<br />
 <font id="pubdate">$pubDate | By $author in $category</font><br /><br />
 </div>
 EOF;
 }
 
 }[/code]

Thats it, as long as I use this, even if I get a xml file through this using ajax, it displays correctly, but I dont want that, what I want to do is load the xml file directly in javascript, and then parse it, creating the required elements, and attach it to the target element. I'll worry about styling later, just want to do this right now ?

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