Built in XML Parser?

[Jaxel]

Does XF have a built in XML parser like VB?

Or does it use PHP's built in SimpleXML?

 

[Jeremy]

I've seen it use SimpleXML somewhere. I can't remember which file exactly, but I believe they use SimpleXML.

 

[Jaxel]

okay... what about cURL? VB also wrote it's own cURL class called "vURL".

 

[Mike]

We use Zend_Http_Client.

 

[Jaxel]

Okay... I completely confused on how Zend_Http_Client...Basically I want to have an URL, and store the source of that URL into a string. In vBulletin I would have used their built in vURL function as follows:

	$vurl = new vB_vURL($vbulletin);
	$vurl->set_option(VURL_URL, 'http://www.xenforo.com/');
	$vurl->set_option(VURL_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	$vurl->set_option(VURL_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	$vurl->set_option(VURL_TIMEOUT, 30);
	$result = $vurl->exec();

I'm trying to do the same thing with Zend_Http_Client...

	$client = new Zend_Http_Client('http://www.xenforo.com/');
	$result = $client->request();
	echo $result;

This should theoretically print out the source coode of the XenForo home page... instead it prints out:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:47:18 GMT Server: Apache Last-modified: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:47:18 GMT Content-encoding: gzip Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-length: 2317 Connection: close Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 ‹¥XýrÛ¸ÿ[z „Ÿœ)MÊŽ:Ž¤Œò5½\œ¤µ¯×L&£Hˆ¤MZf3÷@÷}²þ ))qr;gb’‹Å~þ°»ðäÞó·Ï.ß¿{ÁRSä³á„,‹§Þ¿EùR*é±(çZO½wõ2Ï"XgÃÁ¤†³(åJ3õj³:8õXH+K®K•XM½Ô˜ê,oE¹‚´ ’Eè˜Àf2“‹Y«ˆ°g²¨DžgeÂÀWÔef†muÁ´\™5WbºMúJÉJ(ÓL=™œé̈EÉ
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[Shadab]

Zend_Http_Client::request() returns an object of type Zend_Http_Response.
Call the getBody() method on that object to fetch the actual html source of the requested page.

$client = new Zend_Http_Client('http://www.xenforo.com/');
$result = $client->request();

// Get the response (minus headers)
$source = $result->getBody();

// Display the page as-is. (Or encode the special characters to display the source)
echo $source;

 

[Jaxel]

That worked... is there a reason to use Zend_Http_Client over something like file_get_contents() ?

 

[Shadab]

Zend_Http_Client gives you a very fine grained control of how the actual request to your resource is made; including but not limited to the support of various http request methods, headers, cookies & http authentication. And since the result is in the form of Zend_Http_Response, it exposes you to a nice set of convenience methods for checking the response data like status codes, response headers, etc.

» Zend_Http_Client - Advanced Usage
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.http.client.advanced.html

» Various connection adapters available...
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.http.client.adapters.html

» Zend_Http_Response
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.http.response.html