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    php >> mySQL, not returning data as XML??

    hey gang-

    (more php problems apparently...LOL)

    I am trying to do a simple query to the DB.. using a specific userID.. as well as return rows between a date range...

    I tested the queries in phpMyAdmin.. and they worked fine.. when I threw them into a PHP script, to try and out put the data as XML using a while() loop..

    I got 'nothing'...

    I dont get any errors when I try to access the script directly through the browser (using WAMP Server to server it up)..

    but I 'also' dont get any rows spit out (echo'd) to the screen either?


    it would be a bit easier if I got an error to help guide me in my mistake...but I got nothing?

    Looking at the source code of the page.. it seems the XML is 'there', structured correctly?


    php code:
    PHP Code:

    <?php 

        $myDB 
    mysql_connect('localhost''root''') or die('Connection failed!');

        
    mysql_select_db('fac_paymentdb'$myDB);

        
    $query "SELECT * FROM payments WHERE collectorID = 'DMD' AND date(subDate) >='2012-01-01' AND date(subDate) <= 

    '2012-10-17'"
    ;

        
    $result mysql_query($query$myDB); 

        
    $xml_output  "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n"
        
    $xml_output  .=  "<payments>\n";

        while(
    $row mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
            
    $xml_output .= "\t<payment transID='" $row['transID'] . "' subDate='" $row['subDate'] . "' collectorID='" 

    $row['collectorID'] . "' pFirst='" $row['pFirst'] . "' pMiddle='" $row['pMiddle'] . "' pLast='" $row['pLast'] . "' pAddress='" "' />\n";
        }


        
    $xml_output .= "</payments>";


        echo (
    $xml_output);

    ?>

    1.) Is this even WRONG?
    2.) I seem to recall in the past seeing the XML data structure in the browser if I targeted the script directly?

    (is this a situation of using echo() vs print() perhaps?)


    thanks

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    read SimpleXMLElement in php.net


    marlopax

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    thanks for the reply..

    I dont really need (want) to build a XML object....

    cant I just pass back an 'XML string' to FLASH?

    Im also curious as to why nothing is being echo'd/printed to the screen??

    thanks

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    been working on this still..

    I find it very ODD that its not echo'ing out?

    Is there a syntax error or something somewhere? (but it shows all the correct data in PAGE SOURCE?????????)

    when looking at the page source code.. the last line closing the xml element </payments> is highlighted red?

    not sure if this just a Firefox thing or what?

    (right click on page...page source)

    this is what is what I get:

    Code:
    COUNTER: 48
    COUNTER: 50
    COUNTER: 51
    TOTAL COUNT: 3 
    <payments>
    	<payment transID='48' subDate='2012-08-15' collectorID='DMD' pFirst='q' pMiddle='q' pLast='q' pAddress='q' pCity='q' pState='WI' pZip='11' hPhone='1' wPhone='1' dFirst='q' dMiddle='q' dLast='q' maiden='q' clientNum='q' debtorNum='q' paymentType='check' paymentAmount='23.02' procDae='2012-10-17' bankName='q' checkNum='11' routingNum='11' bankAccountNum='22' ccNum='' securityNum='' expDate='0000-00-00' creditType='' accountType='' posted='0' postedDate='0000-00-00' />
    	<payment transID='50' subDate='2012-10-15' collectorID='DMD' pFirst='q' pMiddle='q' pLast='q' pAddress='q' pCity='q' pState='WI' pZip='11' hPhone='1' wPhone='1' dFirst='q' dMiddle='q' dLast='q' maiden='q' clientNum='q' debtorNum='q' paymentType='check' paymentAmount='1552.05' procDae='2012-12-16' bankName='q' checkNum='11' routingNum='11' bankAccountNum='22' ccNum='' securityNum='' expDate='0000-00-00' creditType='' accountType='' posted='0' postedDate='0000-00-00' />
    	<payment transID='51' subDate='2012-10-17' collectorID='DMD' pFirst='q' pMiddle='q' pLast='q' pAddress='q' pCity='q' pState='WI' pZip='11' hPhone='1' wPhone='1' dFirst='q' dMiddle='q' dLast='q' maiden='q' clientNum='q' debtorNum='q' paymentType='check' paymentAmount='12.65' procDae='2013-01-15' bankName='q' checkNum='11' routingNum='11' bankAccountNum='22' ccNum='' securityNum='' expDate='0000-00-00' creditType='' accountType='' posted='0' postedDate='0000-00-00' />
    </payments>

    PHP Code:
    <?php 

        $counter 
    0;

        
    $myDB mysql_connect('localhost''root''') or die('Connection failed!');

        
    mysql_select_db('fac_paymentdb'$myDB);

        
    $query "SELECT * FROM payments WHERE collectorID = 'DMD' AND date(subDate) >='2012-01-01' AND date(subDate) <= '2012-10-17'";

        
    $result mysql_query($query$myDB); 

        
        
    /*$xml_output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n";*/
        /*$xml_output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n";*/
        
    $xml_output "<payments>\n";

        while(
    $row mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){

            echo 
    "COUNTER: ".$row['transID']."\n";
            
            
    $xml_output .= "\t<payment transID='" $row['transID'] . "' subDate='" $row['subDate'] . "' collectorID='" $row['collectorID'] . "' pFirst='" $row['pFirst'] . "' pMiddle='" $row['pMiddle'] . "' pLast='" $row['pLast'] . "' pAddress='" $row['pAddress'] . "' pCity='" $row['pCity'] . "' pState='" $row['pState'] . "' pZip='" $row['pZip'] . "' hPhone='" $row['hPhone'] . "' wPhone='" $row['wPhone'] . "' dFirst='" $row['dFirst'] . "' dMiddle='" $row['dMiddle'] . "' dLast='" $row['dLast'] . "' maiden='" $row['maiden'] . "' clientNum='" $row['clientNum'] . "' debtorNum='" $row['debtorNum'] . "' paymentType='" $row['paymentType'] . "' paymentAmount='" $row['paymentAmount'] . "' procDae='" $row['procDate'] . "' bankName='" $row['bankName'] . "' checkNum='" $row['checkNum'] . "' routingNum='" $row['routingNum'] . "' bankAccountNum='" $row['bankAccountNum'] . "' ccNum='" $row['ccNum'] . "' securityNum='" $row['securityNum'] . "' expDate='" $row['expDate'] . "' creditType='" $row['creditType'] . "' accountType='" $row['accountType'] . "' posted='" $row['posted'] . "' postedDate='" $row['postedDate'] ."' />\n";
        
    $counter++;
        }
        
    $xml_output .= "</payments>";

        echo 
    "TOTAL COUNT: $counter \n";
        echo 
    "$xml_output";
        
    //echo "&xml_output=$xml_output";

    ?>


    it queries fine..... seems to grab the correct (fake) data...
    return said data in a 'somewhat' XML structured 'string'....

    if I add another echo AFTER the xml_output attempt... it prints to screen.. but the XML_OUPUT var/string I am building will NOT print to screen?

    and the </payments> element is still red?

    anybody got any suggestions?

    thanks

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    Hi,

    to make sure it is not the browser fooling you, how about trying a different tool to capture the output? I am using curl quite often, and believe it is available for windows too

    BTW: when I ran your script right away, I got a mysql error (of course, I do not have the database set up) plus an empty xml container
    Code:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <payments>
    </payments>

    Musicman

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    HI Musicman-


    I am not familiar with the 'curl' option you suggest?

    I seem to pulling/loading the data into FLASH just fine (using a sendAndLoad method)... but can NOT get 'anything' to print/echo to the screen/browser when looping through and building the xml_output string??

    I look at source code.. and it is 'all' there.. formatted correctly..etc... (and again.. it does load into flash fine enough where I can spider through the 'xml' nodes)..

    however when I look at this page source code.. the 'last' payments element/tag is RED?

    (like a syntax error or something? but I see nothing along those lines)..


    am I missing something? should this NOT be echo'd/printed to the screen for some PHP reason I am not understanding? lol

    Thanks..

    -w

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    Hi, curl is a program that is available from haxx.se. It is a command line tool that simply grabs something from the server (in this case your xml dataset) and saves it as a file.
    So you can inspect the file and be sure that no browser logic changed things

    Musicman

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    I dont get any errors when I try to access the script directly through the browser (using WAMP Server to server it up)..

    but I 'also' dont get any rows spit out (echo'd) to the screen either?


    it would be a bit easier if I got an error to help guide me in my mistake...but I got nothing?


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    Hi there,

    Quiet some time has passed and maybe the solution was found yet it did not look to me like it by looking at the last thread. So here a way of approaching it if anybody is still Interested to write / read XML with Flash / FLEX etc.





    Code:
    <?php
    
    // init.php
    
    // Script: 
    // Connecting to the MySQL DataBase Server & a DataBase.
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    		// MySQL DataBase Server Variables.
    		$mysql_host = "localhost";
    			$mysql_user = "root";
    				$mysql_pass = "";
    
    		// DataBase Variable.				
    		$db = 'webflash_createcartdb';
    
    		// Connect to MySQL DataBase Server.	
    		$con = @ mysql_connect("$mysql_host", "$mysql_user", "$mysql_pass") 
    			or exit("Could not connect to MySQL DataBase Server! \n Select DB Error: " . @ mysql_error());
    
    			$con = @ mysql_select_db($db) 
    				or exit( 'Can\'t select the Database is unavailable.' . @ mysql_error());
    		
    		return $con;
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    ?>

    READ & WRITE:

    Code:
    <?php 
    
    // custInfoDetails.php
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    		header('Content-Type: text/xml');
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
     
    		include("../Conn/init.php");
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    		// MAIN TABLE.
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    		if (isset($_POST['lastName'])) { 
    			$title = $_POST['title'];
    			$firstName = $_POST['firstName'];
    			$middleName = $_POST['middleName'];
    			$lastName = $_POST['lastName'];
    			$fullName = $_POST['fullName'];
    			$no = $_POST['no'];
    			$street1 = $_POST['street1'];
    			$street2 = $_POST['street2'];
    			$zip = $_POST['zip'];
    			$suburb = $_POST['suburb'];
    			$city = $_POST['city'];
    			$state = $_POST['state'];
    			$country = $_POST['country'];
    			$email = $_POST['email'];
    			$userName = $_POST['userName'];
    			$password = $_POST['password'];
    			
    		$userNameCopy = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["userNameCopy"]);
    	
    		 $sql = 'INSERT INTO ' . $userNameCopy . ' 
    			(title, firstName, middleName, lastName, fullName, no, street1, street2, zip, suburb, city, 
    			state, country, email, userName, password, now) 
    				VALUES 
    			("' . $title . '", "' . $firstName . '", "' . $middleName . '", "' . $lastName . '", "' . $fullName . '", 
    			"' . $no . '", "' . $street1 . '", "' . $street2 . '", "' . $zip . '", "' . $suburb . '", 
    			"' . $city . '", "' . $state . '", "' . $country . '", "' . $email . '", 
    			"' . $userName . '", "' . $password . '", NOW() )';
    	
    		$result = @ mysql_query($sql);
    			if (!$result) { exit('Error performing the MAIN INSERT query.' . @ mysql_error());
    			}
    		}
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    		$sql = "SELECT custcartinfoID, title, firstName, middleName, lastName, fullName, no, street1, street2, 
    				zip, suburb, city, state, country, email, userName, password, now FROM ' . $userNameCopy . ' ";
    
    		$result = @ mysql_query($sql);
    
    		if (!$result) {
    			$message  = 'Invalid query: ' . @ mysql_errno() . " : " . @ mysql_error() . "\n";
    			$message .= 'Whole query: ' . $sql;
    			exit($message);
    		}
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    		// XML READOUT.
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    			$xml = new DomDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
    		
    			$root = $xml->createElement('allMessages');
    		
    			$root = $xml->appendChild($root);			
    
    			$result = @ mysql_query($sql);
    
    			if ($result) {
    
    				if ( @ mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    
    					while ($row = @ mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    
    						$custcartinfoID = $row['custcartinfoID'];
    						$title = $row['title'];
    						$firstName = $row['firstName'];
    						$middleName = $row['middleName'];
    						$lastName = $row['lastName'];
    						$fullName = $row['fullName'];
    						$no = $row['no'];
    						$street1 = $row['street1'];
    						$street2 = $row['street2'];
    						$zip = $row['zip'];
    						$suburb = $row['suburb'];
    						$city = $row['city'];
    						$state = $row['state'];
    						$country = $row['country'];
    						$email = $row['email'];
    						$userName = $row['userName'];
    						$password = $row['password'];
    						$now = $row['now'];
    
    						// Message Element OPEN Node.				
    						$itemElement = $xml->createElement('message');
    						$itemElement = $root->appendChild($itemElement);
    
    						// First Field.			
    						$idElement = $xml->createElement('custcartinfoID', $custcartinfoID);
    						$idElement = $itemElement->appendChild($idElement);
    
    						$titleElement = $xml->createElement('title', $title);
    						$titleElement = $itemElement->appendChild($titleElement);
    
    						$firstNameElement = $xml->createElement('firstName', $firstName);
    						$firstNameElement = $itemElement->appendChild($firstNameElement);
    
    						$middleNameElement = $xml->createElement('middleName', $middleName);
    						$middleNameElement = $itemElement->appendChild($middleNameElement);
    
    						$lastNameElement = $xml->createElement('lastName', $lastName);
    						$lastNameElement = $itemElement->appendChild($lastNameElement);
    
    						$fullNameElement = $xml->createElement('fullName', $fullName);
    						$fullNameElement = $itemElement->appendChild($fullNameElement);
    
    						$noElement = $xml->createElement('no', $no);
    						$noElement = $itemElement->appendChild($noElement);
    
    						$street1Element = $xml->createElement('street1', $street1);
    						$street1Element = $itemElement->appendChild($street1Element);
    
    						$street2Element = $xml->createElement('street2', $street2);
    						$street2Element = $itemElement->appendChild($street2Element);
    
    						$zipElement = $xml->createElement('zip', $zip);
    						$zipElement = $itemElement->appendChild($zipElement);
    
    						$suburbElement = $xml->createElement('suburb', $suburb);
    						$suburbElement = $itemElement->appendChild($suburbElement);
    
    						$cityElement = $xml->createElement('city', $city);
    						$cityElement = $itemElement->appendChild($cityElement);
    
    						$stateElement = $xml->createElement('state', $state);
    						$stateElement = $itemElement->appendChild($stateElement);
    
    						$countryElement = $xml->createElement('country', $country);
    						$countryElement = $itemElement->appendChild($countryElement);
    
    						$emailElement = $xml->createElement('email', $email);
    						$emailElement = $itemElement->appendChild($emailElement);	
    
    						$userNameElement = $xml->createElement('userName', $userName);
    						$userNameElement = $itemElement->appendChild($userNameElement);
    
    						$passwordElement = $xml->createElement('password', $password);
    						$passwordElement = $itemElement->appendChild($passwordElement);
    
    						// Last Field.	
    						$nowElement = $xml->createElement('now', $now);
    						$nowElement = $itemElement->appendChild($nowElement);				
    					}
    				}
    				// Message Element CLOSING Node.
    				else {
    					$messageElement = $xml->createElement('message','There are no posts.');
    					$messageElement = $root->appendChild($messageElement);
    				}
    			}
    			else {
    				$messageElement = $xml->createElement('message', @mysql_error());
    				$messageElement = $root->appendChild($messageElement);
    			}
    
    		
    		// Return the XML Document.
    		echo $xml->saveXML();
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    		// CLOSE DATABSE.
    
    		// Close DataBase Server Connection!
    		@ mysql_close($con);
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    ?>


    READ ONLY:

    Code:
    <?php 
    
    // select.php
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    		// First, this script uses the header() function to tell the web server that the return is going to be XML.
    		header('Content-Type: text/xml');
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
     
    		// Connecting with MySQL DataBase Server & a DataBase.
    		include("init.php");
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    		// MAIN TABLE.
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    		// SELECT more than one Table !	
    		/* $query="SELECT movie.movie_name, movietype.movietype_label FROM movie, movietype		
    					WHERE movie.movie_type = movietype.movietype_id
    					AND movie.movie_year>1990
    					ORDER BY movie_type"; */
    
    		$sql = 'SELECT customerID, title, firstname, middlename, lastname, no, street1, street2, zip, suburb, city, 
    			state, country, email, emailpriv, emailbus, url1, url2, note, now FROM customerdetails';
    
    		$result = @ mysql_query($sql);
    
    		if (!$result) {
    			$message  = 'Invalid query: ' . @ mysql_errno() . " : " . @ mysql_error() . "\n";
    			$message .= 'Whole query: ' . $sql;
    			exit($message);
    		}
    
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    		// XML READOUT.
    /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
    
    			$xml = new DomDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
    		
    			$root = $xml->createElement('customerDetails');
    		
    			$root = $xml->appendChild($root);
    		
    			$result = @ mysql_query($sql);
    		
    			if ($result) {
    		
    				if ( @ mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    		
    					while ($row = @ mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    		
    						$customerID = $row['customerID'];
    						$title = $row['title'];
    						$firstname = $row['firstname'];
    						$middlename = $row['middlename'];
    						$lastname = $row['lastname'];
    						$no = $row['no'];
    						$street1 = $row['street1'];
    						$street2 = $row['street2'];
    						$zip = $row['zip'];
    						$suburb = $row['suburb'];
    						$city = $row['city'];
    						$state = $row['state'];
    						$country = $row['country'];
    						$email = $row['email'];
    						$emailpriv = $row['emailpriv'];
    						$emailbus = $row['emailbus'];
    						$url1 = $row['url1'];
    						$url2 = $row['url2'];
    						$note = $row['note'];
    						$now = $row['now'];
    		
    						// Message Element OPEN Node.				
    						$itemElement = $xml->createElement('information');
    						$itemElement = $root->appendChild($itemElement);
    
    						// First Field.			
    						$idElement = $xml->createElement('customerID', $customerID);
    						$idElement = $itemElement->appendChild($idElement);
    			
    						$titleElement = $xml->createElement('title', $title);
    						$titleElement = $itemElement->appendChild($titleElement);
    			
    						$firstnameElement = $xml->createElement('firstname', $firstname);
    						$firstnameElement = $itemElement->appendChild($firstnameElement);
    
    						$middlenameElement = $xml->createElement('middlename', $middlename);
    						$middlenameElement = $itemElement->appendChild($middlenameElement);
    			
    						$lastnameElement = $xml->createElement('lastname', $lastname);
    						$lastnameElement = $itemElement->appendChild($lastnameElement);
    
    						$noElement = $xml->createElement('no', $no);
    						$noElement = $itemElement->appendChild($noElement);
    			
    						$street1Element = $xml->createElement('street1', $street1);
    						$street1Element = $itemElement->appendChild($street1Element);
    			
    						$street2Element = $xml->createElement('street2', $street2);
    						$street2Element = $itemElement->appendChild($street2Element);
    
    						$zipElement = $xml->createElement('zip', $zip);
    						$zipElement = $itemElement->appendChild($zipElement);
    
    						$suburbElement = $xml->createElement('suburb', $suburb);
    						$suburbElement = $itemElement->appendChild($suburbElement);
    			
    						$cityElement = $xml->createElement('city', $city);
    						$cityElement = $itemElement->appendChild($cityElement);
    
    						$stateElement = $xml->createElement('state', $state);
    						$stateElement = $itemElement->appendChild($stateElement);
    			
    						$countryElement = $xml->createElement('country', $country);
    						$countryElement = $itemElement->appendChild($countryElement);
    		
    						$emailElement = $xml->createElement('email', $email);
    						$emailElement = $itemElement->appendChild($emailElement);
    
    						$emailprivElement = $xml->createElement('emailpriv', $emailpriv);
    						$emailprivElement = $itemElement->appendChild($emailprivElement);
    
    						$emailbusElement = $xml->createElement('emailbus', $emailbus);
    						$emailbusElement = $itemElement->appendChild($emailbusElement);
    
    						$url1Element = $xml->createElement('url1', $url1);
    						$url1Element = $itemElement->appendChild($url1Element);
    
    						$url2Element = $xml->createElement('url2', $url2);
    						$url2Element = $itemElement->appendChild($url2Element);
    	
    						$noteElement = $xml->createElement('note', $note);
    						$noteElement = $itemElement->appendChild($noteElement);	
    
    						// Last Field.	
    						$nowElement = $xml->createElement('now', $now);
    						$nowElement = $itemElement->appendChild($nowElement);				
    					}
    				}
    				// Message Element CLOSING Node.
    				else {
    					$messageElement = $xml->createElement('information','There are no posts.');
    					$messageElement = $root>appendChild($messageElement);
    				}
    			}
    			else {
    				$messageElement = $xml->createElement('information', @mysql_error());
    				$messageElement = $root>appendChild($messageElement);
    			}
    
    		echo $xml->saveXML();
    
    ?>

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