Question

Hy!

I am very new in Web-Dev. I have a mysql db and the controller is made with PHP.

I give the data formated in php back to the html.

My Quest:

How to parse the xml in js right for the HTML based view?

If there are better solutions for the data transfair between PHP and HMTL, please let me know.
I don’t wont the have HTML code in the php

Example PHP:

<?php
$id = $_GET['id'];
        if (is_numeric($id))
        {
            include 'db_connect.php';
            $sql = "Select * from RECIPES WHERE recipes_id=".$id;
            $result = mysql_query($sql,$db) or exit("QUERY FAILED!");

            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
             {
                 echo "<RECIPE>";
                 echo "<ID>" . $row['recipes_id'] . "</ID><br />";
                 echo "<TITLE>" . $row['text'] . "</TITLE><br />";
                 echo "<TEXT>" . $row['text'] . "</TEXT><br />";
                 echo "<COUNT_PERSONS>" . $row['count_persons'] . "</COUNT_PERSONS><br />";
                 echo "<DURATION>" . $row['duration'] . "</DURATION><br />";
                 echo "<USER_ID>" . $row['user_id'] . "</USER_ID><br />";
                 echo "<DATE>" . $row['date'] . "</DATE><br />";
                 echo "</RECIPE>";
             }
        }

        else
        {
                echo "<ERROR>ID ERROR</ERRORR>";
        }
        mysql_close($db);

?>

thx

Answer 1

If you just want to transfer data between the browser and the server then it’s simpler to use the JSON format. For PHP there are two built in function to decode and encode JSON: json_decode and json_encode.

Modern browser support JSON by default: JSON.parse and JSON.stringify.