Posted this in the xml forum but told should post here as well...

[nine72]

Ok, I am not sure where to start with this, I can generally figure out my issues after a few days...but not this time...haha.

Overview:
Receive an incoming XML string, parse, store to session or other method and present results on a web page (PHP).

Currently, I am generating an xml sting from a set of 15 forms and sending to a middleware app that validates business rules and commits to a central DB. I have not been required to accept a response other than the following...

<Response>
    <RecordId>Id_Here</RecordId>
    <Status>Insert Complete or Failed</Status>
<Response>

The RecordId I generate and send and it is just returned to me, The Status I would see if it were Complete or Failed and direct the user to the correct page.

Now I am being required to take the incoming string and return all values to a completed page if the insert is successful.

As stated above the string I send is generated from 15 form pages. However, 3 pages can be "recycled" as many times in a session as the user requires. This is say a Contact page, they can give me 1 contact or a 1K contacts. For each contact that is returned it would look something like this...

<Contact>
   <contact_id>971</contact_id>
   <contact_type>ACCOUNTING</contact_type>
   <first_name>JANE</first_name>
   <last_name>DOE</last_name>
   <middle_i>M</middle_i>
   <address1>147 OCEAN DR</address1>
   <address2>null</address2>
   <state_cd>MA</state_cd>
   <city>RIVERMOOR</city>
   <zip>01556</zip>
   <cntry_cd>840</cntry_cd>
   <telephone>3213213211</telephone>
   <mobile>null</mobile>
   <email_id>NOEMAIL@MYJOB.COM</email_id>
   <department>null</department>
   <title>null</title>
   <fax>5555555555</fax>
   <url>null</url>
   <country>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</country>
   <state>MASSACHUSETTS</state>
   <customer_care_phone>3213213211</customer_care_phone>
</Contact>

So if they enter 100 Contacts then how in the world do I take a tag like <state> that occurs 100 times, parese it and make it unique and then return all the unique tags to some variable that I can then call on a completion page and present the information in a usable format...

I am currently trying to use this class....

<? 
/** 
* XMLToArray Generator Class 
* Purpose : Creating Hierarchical Array from XML Data 
*/ 

class XmlToArray 
{ 
    
    var $xml=''; 
    
    /** 
    * Default Constructor 
    * @param $xml = xml data 
    * @return none 
    */ 
    
    function XmlToArray($xml) 
    { 
       $this->xml = $xml;    
    } 
    
    /** 
    * _struct_to_array($values, &$i) 
    * 
    * This is adds the contents of the return xml into the array for processing. 
    * Recursive, Static 
    * 
    * @access    private 
    * @param    array  $values this is the xml data in an array 
    * @param    int    $i  this is the current location in the array 
    * @return    Array 
    */ 
    
    function _struct_to_array($values, &$i) 
    { 
        $child = array(); 
        if (isset($values[$i]['value'])) array_push($child, $values[$i]['value']); 
        
        while ($i++ < count($values)) { 
            switch ($values[$i]['type']) { 
                case 'cdata': 
                array_push($child, $values[$i]['value']); 
                break; 
                
                case 'complete': 
                    $name = $values[$i]['tag']; 
                    if(!empty($name)){ 
                    $child[$name]= ($values[$i]['value'])?($values[$i]['value']):''; 
                    if(isset($values[$i]['attributes'])) {                    
                        $child[$name] = $values[$i]['attributes']; 
                    } 
                }    
              break; 
                
                case 'open': 
                    $name = $values[$i]['tag']; 
                    $size = isset($child[$name]) ? sizeof($child[$name]) : 0; 
                    $child[$name][$size] = $this->_struct_to_array($values, $i); 
                break; 
                
                case 'close': 
                return $child; 
                break; 
            } 
        } 
        return $child; 
    }//_struct_to_array 
    
    /** 
    * createArray($data) 
    * 
    * This is adds the contents of the return xml into the array for easier processing. 
    * 
    * @access    public 
    * @param    string    $data this is the string of the xml data 
    * @return    Array 
    */ 
    function createArray() 
    { 
        $xml    = $this->xml; 
        $values = array(); 
        $index  = array(); 
        $array  = array(); 
        $parser = xml_parser_create(); 
        xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); 
        xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0); 
        xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $xml, $values, $index); 
        xml_parser_free($parser); 
        $i = 0; 
        $name = $values[$i]['tag']; 
        $array[$name] = isset($values[$i]['attributes']) ? $values[$i]['attributes'] : ''; 
        $array[$name] = $this->_struct_to_array($values, $i); 
        return $array; 
        
    }//createArray 
    
    
}
?>

And it works well enough; it gives me huge nested arrays of the xml data...but how do I save and use from there

Thanks....