Topic awaiting preservation: Translator: Perl -> PHP

Hi,
i found a great Perl program, that reads and writes XML Files. I tried to convert everything into PHP, but one function gives me headache. Here is the source (part of it):

use strict;

use CGI;

use File::Copy;

use XML::LibXSLT;

use XML::LibXML;

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my $filepath = "/full/path/to/cgi-bin/data";

my $xml = $q->param("data");

my $view = $q->param("view");

my $xmlFile = $year . $month;

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sub modeEdit {



my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();

my $xslt = XML::LibXSLT->new();



my $file = "$filepath/$xml.xml";



my $source = $parser->parse_file($file);

my $style_doc = $parser->parse_file('$cgiPath/myxslfile.xsl');



my $stylesheet = $xslt->parse_stylesheet($style_doc);



my $results = $stylesheet->transform($source, view => "'$view'", month => "'$xmlFile'");



print "Content-type: text/html; charset=\"UTF-8\"\n\n";

print $stylesheet->output_string($results);

}

Could someone explain me every step in the function and give a hint to the equivalent PHP function?
Thanks

[Emp edit: Stopped HSBoD]

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 06-18-2003).]

[This message has been edited by u-neek (edited 06-18-2003).]

u-neek: I'm sure there are ways and means to convert between the 2 but this:

quote:

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my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $xslt = XML::LibXSLT->new();

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means that it is running from Perl modules and you won't be to simply convert things like that and it would be better to work from scratch. It depends on your setup but have a look at the Expat parser for PHP (and if you want XSLT Sablotron).

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FAQs: Emperor

I've installed both, XSLT & XML for PHP following a tutorial at http://www.phpbeginner.com/ and phpinfo() tells me, that it works correct.

I haven't worked with XSLT in php but I have done XML parsing. And it's relatively easy. The PHP XML functions tend to work very simliarly to the Perl Library functions.

Take a look at the PHP XML parsing page for some examples.

I'd recommend figuring out what it means to parse an XML document and then go from there to transforming it.

The thing is there are a couple of way to parse an XML doc depending on how you want to use it. What does this script do?



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

WHOOOOOHOOO!

xslt_process is my friend. My PHP source:

function modeEdit() {



	global $filepath, $xml, $thisPath, $xmlFile, $view;



	$file = $filepath ."/". $xml .".xml";

	$XslFile = $thisPath ."/myxslfile.xsl";



	$xslt = xslt_create();



	$source = implode("", file($file));

	$style_doc = implode("", file($XslFile));



	$args = array('/_xml' => $source, '/_xsl' => $style_doc);

	$params = array('view' => $view, 'month' => $xmlFile);



	$result = xslt_process($xslt, 'arg:/_xml', 'arg:/_xsl', NULL, $args, $params);

	IF (!$result) echo xslt_error($xslt);

	echo $result;



	xslt_free($xslt);



}

It is not ready yet! But it works as i want it

bitdamaged, this script only combines a xslt and a xml document.
These three tutorials will give some further informations on combining xml, xslt and php.

Whew

[This message has been edited by u-neek (edited 06-18-2003).]