getting "1" in my temp.xml when using fwrite

Posted by alexus on November 11, 2008, 1:17 am

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fwrite(fopen('temp.xml','w+'),
print_r(simplexml_load_string(curl_exec($test))),true);

i for some reason get "1" inside of my temp.xml

Posted by Erwin Moller on November 11, 2008, 4:20 am

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alexus schreef:
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Hi Alexus,
You are making a mess of thing in more than 1 way.
First you try to write your code in 1 line, making it hard to follow
(for you too appearantly).
Second: You use print_r() in a very strange way.
Third: You don't close your filehandles.

Why don't you open an handle first? How will you close this stream?
And what does that last true mean?
Read here:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php
The third argument is the length, not a boolean.

Try this:

$myHandle = fopen('temp.xml','w+');
$myData = simplexml_load_string(curl_exec($test));
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print_r($myData );
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fwrite($myHandle ,$myData);
fclose($myHandle);

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on November 11, 2008, 6:43 am

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alexus wrote:
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simplexml doesn't cooperate with print_r() or var_dump().

Instead of doing all this in one statement, first fetch the string with
curl_exec() and ensure it worked OK. Then call simplexml_load_string().

Rather than using print_r(), iterate through the child elements. See
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-element-children.php for
an example on how to iterate the child nodes.

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