solpurpose@shaw
09-03-2004, 06:04 PM
When I was at University, I gained some experience with PHP when it came to the use of the script with databases such as MySQL. However, I'm a novice with PHP and xml parsing and the version of php I used then is outdated by about 3 years. So I've upgraded versions.
I'm running a mac os X etc. with php version 5.0.1 now. I'm finding the new version is poorly documented when it comes to simpleXML and DOM. All the older methods and classes have been replaced with new ones with different names and syntax etc. moreover there are certain methods I've found for version 5 from a couple of german prof. demonstrations for simpleXML and DOM that don't show up at php.net. NASTY!
It's very cool that you can interchange/load simpleXML and DOM together, but I'm finding it useless since I have no good resources and more than half of the code I run from php.net and dev.net does not run on 5.0.1. I have found a lot of support (obviously) for the previous version 4.3.4.
I'm going to resort to 4.3.4 for now, and get rid of 5, but the point of this post is for some opinions/links/resources on php and xml paring involving DOMXML or either of the above if anyone out there has had a lot more success with it than I have. Even forwarding me to a good php forum would help a lot. (I've been avoiding php.net with version 5 since I ran 10 sections of code and they all crashed).
Thanks for your help and for letting me complain about it. :p
I'm running a mac os X etc. with php version 5.0.1 now. I'm finding the new version is poorly documented when it comes to simpleXML and DOM. All the older methods and classes have been replaced with new ones with different names and syntax etc. moreover there are certain methods I've found for version 5 from a couple of german prof. demonstrations for simpleXML and DOM that don't show up at php.net. NASTY!
It's very cool that you can interchange/load simpleXML and DOM together, but I'm finding it useless since I have no good resources and more than half of the code I run from php.net and dev.net does not run on 5.0.1. I have found a lot of support (obviously) for the previous version 4.3.4.
I'm going to resort to 4.3.4 for now, and get rid of 5, but the point of this post is for some opinions/links/resources on php and xml paring involving DOMXML or either of the above if anyone out there has had a lot more success with it than I have. Even forwarding me to a good php forum would help a lot. (I've been avoiding php.net with version 5 since I ran 10 sections of code and they all crashed).
Thanks for your help and for letting me complain about it. :p