layton

nope don't create it manually. Instead of echoing the results store it in a variable.Then create the new file with the code I showed you for that. then using fopen() again (see PHP Manual at php.net) open the file and write the variable holding hte results.All done

yep....saw that and wrote the edit on my post.....must have wrote the edit as you were responding. got it all taken care of now.....pretty sweet. Thanks a lot sir.

$fnew = fopen("yourfilename.html", "w+");flock($fnew, 1);then you can open your new file and write to it.

that makes sense....except to my knowledge the script im using doesn't create a file to open...i'm usinghttp://www.tgreer.com/class_http_php.htmlwhat i do is supply a url. it scrapes it and echo's back the contents. now i see that all i need to do is take the data and instead of echo back just put it into a new document.htmlunless your saying i should create the document.html manually and then fopen it?EDIT: ok i see that fopen will create the file if it doesn't exist. so pretty much i fopen, fwrite....thanks alot!!

Yes there is. It is call screen scrapping. In short you would set up a php page that allows you insert a filename (yourname.html) and what the source url is (localhost/yourdynamicpage.php). The screen scrapping code would then pull the generated html from your source page. then you can use this info to generate an html page.http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa=X...ing&spell=1

do you have experience with this? i downloaded a screen scrape script...which does grab the html code. so now how to i tell the script to save that information into an html document?

Judging by the topic description you're probably thinking "well yeah!!" but here's the deal.At my place of employment, for whatever reason, the IT department has decided to not support any dynamic content or database services. I CAN, however, setup a localhost sql server and get php going on my machine as well. What i'm looking to do is make a glorified status page on jobs that i have to do. The idea is to use php / sql to input jobs and their status via form....and later change that information based on completion. The downside is that for my boss to see this data it needs to be on our test or live servers that don't support sql / php. So the question is. Is there a way to pull the data with php from my localhost and convert it an html file.

ok i fixed the problem. there were 2 issues.1) i skipped over a number in the array. like 10. go figure.2) i started it with 1 instead of 0.making those two changes solved the problem.

I'm having a problem getting reverse() to reverse correctly. As it stands I have an array with 21 members. when I use reverse() on the array, at spots 10 and 21 they are placed at the bottom rather than in their normal order. I was under the assumption that reverse() is supposed to reverse the order, not rearrange the order.here's the code:

function myJobs(dateIn,task,url,dateOut){this.dateIn = dateIn;this.task = task;this.url = url;this.dateOut = dateOut;}theJobs = new Array();theJobs[01] = new myJobs("06.26.06","task1","my.url","06.26.06");theJobs[02] = new myJobs("06.26.06","task2","my.url","06.26.06");......theJobs[21] = new myJobs("06.26.06","task21","my.url","06.26.06");

further down i open a table, loop through the array, then close the table. here's the loop:

for(i in theJobs){document.write('<tr><td>'+theJobs[i].dateIn+'</td><td>'+theJobs[i].task+'</td><td>'+theJobs[i].url+'</a> </td><td>'+theJobs[i].dateOut+'</td></tr>');}

the idea behind this is to sort everything by date. newest date first. it's a glorified honey-do list. LOL. since i'm constantly adding new entries....it seems like a good idea to just reverse the order....but that's the problem. If there is a way better way to do this.....by all means...tell me. I'm not an expert.

XLink and XPointer can help you target the certain word or node, but not to define that word as a link to a target.In other words, a link may target the word "here" without that word having it's own node with(out) ID. However, links can only be defined on nodes. And not any nodes either. Elements only, scince XLink uses attributes and XPointer is part of those same attributes.

is what i want to do even possible? i can't imagine not being able to use a "hyperlink" with xml.

for fun...you can write a link like this:

<a href="THELINK.COM"> click here </a>

(I hope I didn't have a typo)

yeah but all that's going to do is print:<a href="THELINK.COM">click here!</a>rather than provide a link.

I don't understand how to use XLink to create a hyperlink on a single word. Example:

<news><topic>the topic</topic><body>heres some information about our topic. for more, click here.</body></news>

i've read a few tutorials on xlink and they show how to take a whole node and make it a link...but nothing is clear on making a single word in that node a link.in the example above i would like the word "here" at the end to link to an external url. i've read a little on xpointer and thought maybe that's what i need to use also....but i'm just not sure. any help would be appreciated.

thanks for the tip....would the security setting be the same issue if internet explorer prompts me for a download when trying to view xml or not.....i'll post this issue in another topic as to not get "off topic" as well but....for some reason....i can see the tutorial xml files fine in IE but when i create them locally it prompts for a file download instead.Cheers

well i think i figured it out ..... sort of....putting the xml file on a web server (as you suggested in a round about way) displays the xml file correctly.....as far as allowing active files to run locally......apparantly my companies IT (computer police) department has removed that option completely from my system. (this option is on my work PC while the Safari issue was on my home mac....for clarity)

By the way, if you're running the XML locally (not on a web server) check that Security settings don't forbid you to run "active" files locally. Such settings and their failing mechanism vary in browsers, which is why it may work in Camino.

thanks for the tip....would the security setting be the same issue if internet explorer prompts me for a download when trying to view xml or not.....i'll post this issue in another topic as to not get "off topic" as well but....for some reason....i can see the tutorial xml files fine in IE but when i create them locally it prompts for a file download instead.Cheers

I was following the tutorials on XML / XSLT and when previewing the final document (http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/cdcatalog_with_xsl.xml) it appeared correctly....however when copying it directly to my own pages....and testing it....nothing showed up. So I searched to see if Safari supported it....and it's supposed to fully support XSLT. After looking at my code and double checking to see if it was me, I decided to download Camino instead and try that.....works perfectly....so my question is....how do I get it to display properly in Safari? Anyway...here's the code....seems basic enough.The XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="msgBoard.xsl"?><msgboard><message><topic>My XML message board topic</topic><content>My XML content for when the messages are displayed.</content></message><message><topic>The second topic for the msg board</topic><content>I'm trying to find a way to deliver the message board in a better way.</content></message></msgboard>

The XSL

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:template match="/">  <html>  <body>	<table border="1">	<xsl:for-each select="msgboard/message">	<tr>	  <td><xsl:value-of select="topic"/></td>	  <td><xsl:value-of select="content"/></td>	</tr>	</xsl:for-each>	</table>  </body>  </html></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>