xml to php - help- newbie

[Goat]

Greetings

I am wanting to pass a xml file to PHP, which will then turn it into a pdf using this-

http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf

The xml file is a flight Itenary.

The current system is very inflexible. So we are changing to having our online flight booking system output files as an xml file. This then needs to be picked up, and converted into a pdf.

I'v found a php script which can convert a text file into a pdf ( see the link above) which works well.

I've never worked with PHP before but it seems to be the way to.

I hope somebody can give me some good suggestions as to how to get this to work.

 

[GiffordS]

PHP has a native xml parser, xpat, which is servicable for most XML applications. It's a bit more clunky that the java parsers, but it gets the job done. The biggest drawback is that it is, in my opinion, slow. To be honest, if it were a small document with set elements I wouldn't be afraid to write it once using xpat, and once just parsing the xml through a series of regular expression filters to see which runs fastest.

 

[HowardMarks]

If you use ASP, you could use the XMLDOM to parse the XML and write it to a text file. Then you could use the bit of software you found (or its asp equivalent) to convert the text file into a pdf.
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[GiffordS]

You could also use the XML DOM anyway as long as you are know that your users will be running IE5+. You could wrap everything in PHP and echo just the XML to the browser, which has MSXML DOM built in.