Question

I would like to know how can i give other website parsers an xml file or response based on arguments they request?
For example i have show_data.php file that can take range of params and then apply it to mysql query and then form valid xml 1.0 string.

So by this point i have finished with data fetching + xml formating based on request params.
Now how would i share that xml with other websites for their xml parsers?

Do i simply output my xml string in php file with appropriate headers or somehow else?

Example:
1)www.example.com request www.mypage.com/show_data.php?show=10
2)www.mypage.com/show_data.php send xml data back to www.example.com

It’s really hard to explain since i have not worked with xml and stuff before. Hope it makes some sense.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, when example.com does the initial request, your page will process it and return the xml as the result. There’s nothing special that you’ll need to do.

$xml = "";

// process the xml (build it - do what you need to do)

// returning the xml to the requester
header ("Content-Type:text/xml"); 
echo $xml;