Issue Parsing XML into table


Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

Hello all,

Im a bit new to php and new to phpfreaks. But thanks in advance for the help!

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Im parsing an xml feed into a table. The only problem is that one of the fields can not format properly in the table.

Here is how the page is working now: http://russiancirclesband.com/tour.php

The "With" column is spacing out $OtherArtists out one entry per line, whereas it should have however many $OtherArtists were listed on that line per date.

Here is the PHP
Code:
<?php

$xml_file = "XML FEED";

$xml_City_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*CITY";
$xml_VenueName_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*VENUENAME";
$xml_VenueZip_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*VENUEZIP";
$xml_VenueAddress_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*VENUEADDRESS";
$xml_TicketUri_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*TICKETURI";
$xml_Description_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*DESCRIPTION";
$xml_VenueUri_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*VENUEURI";
$xml_Date_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*DATE";
$xml_TimeSet_key= "*SHOWS*SHOW*TIMESET";
$xml_State_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*STATE";
$xml_Country_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*COUNTRY";
$xml_OtherArtists_key = "*SHOWS*SHOW*OTHERARTISTS*NAME";


$Show_array = array();

$counter = 0;
class xml_Show{
var $City, $VenueName, $VenueZip, $VenueAddress, $TicketUri, $Description, $VenueUri, $Date, $TimeSet, $State, $Country, $OtherArtists ;
}

function startTag($parser, $data){
global $current_tag;
$current_tag .= "*$data";
}

function endTag($parser, $data){
global $current_tag;
$tag_key = strrpos($current_tag, '*');
$current_tag = substr($current_tag, 0, $tag_key);
}

function contents($parser, $data){
global $current_tag, $xml_City_key, $xml_VenueName_key, $xml_VenueZip_key, $xml_VenueAddress_key, $xml_TicketUri_key, $xml_Description_key, $xml_VenueUri_key, $xml_Date_key,$xml_TimeSet_key, $xml_State_key, $xml_Country_key, $xml_OtherArtists_key, $counter, $Show_array;
switch($current_tag){
case $xml_City_key:
$Show_array[$counter] = new xml_Show();
$Show_array[$counter]->City = $data;
break;
case $xml_VenueName_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->VenueName = $data;
break;
case $xml_VenueZip_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->VenueZip = $data;
break;
case $xml_VenueAddress_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->VenueAddress = $data;
break;
case $xml_TicketUri_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->TicketUri = $data;
break;
case $xml_Description_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->Description = $data;
break;
case $xml_VenueUri_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->VenueUri = $data;
break;
case $xml_Date_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->Date = $data;
break;
case $xml_TimeSet_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->TimeSet = $data;
break;
case $xml_State_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->State = $data;
break;
case $xml_Country_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->Country = $data;
break;
case $xml_OtherArtists_key:
$Show_array[$counter]->OtherArtists = $data;
$counter++;
break;

}
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startTag", "endTag");

xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "contents");


$data = file_get_contents($xml_file);


if(!(xml_parse($xml_parser, $data))){
die("Error on line " . xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser));
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);


?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Russian Circles - Tour</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--

#blog {
padding: 15px 15px 15px 60px;
top: 400px;

}
body {
background-image: url(tiledis.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-color:#000000;

}

a:link {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration:underline;
}
a:visited {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration:underline;
}
.style1 {
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #ffffff;
}

.style2 {
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #4e4e4e;
}
#whole {
position:absolute;
width:850px;
z-index:1;
top: 0px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
background-color:#ffffff;
}
body,td,th {
color: #FFF;
}

-->
</style>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></head>
<body>




<table width="850" align="center" border="1">
<tr>
<td width="100"><div align="center">
<span class="style2">
<u>Date</u>


</span></div>
</td>
<td width="300"><div align="center">
<span class="style1">
<u>Location</u>


</span>
</td></div>
<td width=250"><div align="center">
<span class="style1">
<u>Venue</u>


</span>
</td>
<td width="350"><div align="center">
<span class="style1">
<u>With</u>

</div>
</span>
</td>
<td width="250"><div align="center">
<span class="style1">
<u>Tickets</u>

</div>
</span>
</td>
</tr>





<span class="style1"><div align="center">
<?php

for($x=0;$x<count($Show_array);$x++){
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>";
echo "t" . $Show_array[$x]->Date . "n";
echo "</td>";

echo "<td>";
if ($Show_array[$x]->Country == "United States") {
echo "t" . $Show_array[$x]->City . ","; echo "t" . $Show_array[$x]->State . " n";

} else {
echo "t" . $Show_array[$x]->City . ","; echo "t" . $Show_array[$x]->Country . " n";
}
echo "</td>";

echo "<td>";
echo "t" . $Show_array[$x]->VenueName . "n";
echo "</td>";

echo "<td>";
echo "t" . $Show_array[$x]->OtherArtists . "";
echo "</td>";

echo "<td>";
if ($Show_array[$x]->TicketUri == "") {
echo "

";
} else {
echo "<a href='" . $Show_array[$x]->TicketUri . "'>Buy Tickets</a>";
}
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
?>

</table>
</p>
</div>






<table width="665" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="5"><div align="center"><a href="http://russiancirclesband.com"><img src="img/rcgeneva.png" width="300" height="38" border="0" /></a><a href="http://russiancirclesband.com"><img src="img/csoct202009.png" width="300" height="38" border="0" /></a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="5"><div align="center"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="133"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/russiancircles" target="_blank"><img src="img/rcspace.png" width="133" height="25" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td width="133"><div align="center"><a href="http://russiancircles.hellomerch.com" target="_blank"><img src="img/rcstore.png" width="133" height="25" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td width="133"><div align="center"><a href="http://russiancirclesband.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="img/rcnews.png" width="133" height="25" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td width="133"><div align="center"><a href="contact.html" target="_self"><img src="img/rccontacts.png" width="133" height="25" border="0" /></a></div></td>
<td width="133"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/russiancircles" target="_blank"><img src="img/rctour.png" width="133" height="25" border="0" /></a></div></td>
</div>
</tr>
</table>





</body>
</html>



and here is a sample of the xml:

Code: <shows xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://feeds.artistdata.com/_css/shows.xsd">
<show>
<recordKey></recordKey>
<name><![CDATA[]]></name>
<city><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></city>
<venueName><![CDATA[Knitting Factory]]></venueName>
<venueZip></venueZip>
<venuePhone>(347)529-6696</venuePhone>

<venueAddress><![CDATA[361 Metropolitan Ave]]></venueAddress>
<ticketURI><![CDATA[]]></ticketURI>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<ageLimit>All Ages</ageLimit>
<venueURI><![CDATA[http://ny.knittingfactory.com/index.php]]></venueURI>
<ticketPrice><![CDATA[ADV $10 DOOR $12]]></ticketPrice>
<date>2009-12-03</date>
<timeSet>20:30:00</timeSet>

<timeDoors></timeDoors>
<stateAbbreviation>NY</stateAbbreviation>
<state>New York</state>
<countryAbbreviation>US</countryAbbreviation>
<country>United States</country>
<otherArtists>
<name><![CDATA[Cast Spells]]></name>

<uri><![CDATA[http://myspace.com/castspells]]></uri>
</otherArtists>
<artistname>Good Old War</artistname>
<artistKey></artistKey>
</show>
</shows>

So obviously the wall Other Artists are being called is slightly different, but im not exactly sure what is happening. to see what JUST $OtherArtists echo'ing would look like, check out: http://russiancirclesband.com/tour2.php.

Not sure what my next move is.

Thanks again!
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