Need to Pull XML Data From A Server

[XHTMLboy]

Hello, now I am trying to pull XML data from a server using JavaScript. I was wondering if someone can help me built it as I have no idea what to do. Basically I need to click on a button inside a web browser which will get the XML data. If you guys can make one using html and javascript and upload it I'd be very happy. Thanks for looking.

[Ingolme]

The XML DOM tutorial teaches you how to open and read XML files with Javascript. Javascript can only read XML files from the current domain, but you can use a PHP proxy to load XML from other domains.

[XHTMLboy]

This is what I've mannaged to do but it's not working. :/

[Ingolme]

Like I said, you can only load files that are on your same domain. Unless this file is on computerlabs.co.uk it's not going to work.

[XHTMLboy]

The file is on computerlabs.co.uk. The link in the code is where the xml data is stored. When I click the button I want it to pull the xml data from that location which is on computerlabs.co.uk

[Ingolme]

Try using a relative URL rather than an absolute URL.

xhttp.open("GET","/computerlabs/get_users.php",false);

If that doesn't work, then check the browser's error console. There are actually a few errors in your code: Forgot closing brace:

	else{

At the moment you're not doing anything with this variable:

xmlDoc=xhttp.responseXML;

The action attribute isn't used like this:

<form name="form" action="get_xml()">

You should forget the <form> tag altogether. Add an onclick attribute to the <input> element instead and change its type to button:

<input type="button" onclick="get_xml()" value="Click">

To prevent any problems, you should declare all your variables with the var keyword:

var xhttp;var xmlDoc;