External Xml File

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hello, where can i place my external xml files in the project? I need to send request to xml files to get file contents from any controllers.

2

Hi,

You can place it where you want. It should just be readable by the webserver owner.

3

IF place the xml file under \protected\components, How should I read or access the xml file ?

4

you can use like this to access the file:

hope this is what you are loooking for


Yii::app()->baseUrl.'/protected/components/somefile.xml'

if you want to work with xml files this might be helpful:

to work with it…you can use something like this:







public function xyzRequest()


{


// Initialize the cURL session


//ob_start();




$this->curl = curl_init();


//$file = Yii::getPathOfAlias('webroot.assets').'/somefile.xml';




//$fp = fopen("$file", "w");





curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);


curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $this->cookie);//$this->cookie(it is storing the session value and for every time we are performing authenticaiton before we process with our new request) is value is $this->cookie = Yii::getPathOfAlias('webroot.assets').'/cookie.txt';


curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://remoteurl.website.com/xyz/');


//curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);




//curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);




$result = curl_exec($this->curl);


curl_close($this->curl);


//print $result;


//$out = ob_get_contents();


var_dump($result);
5

Just as a matter of convention, I always find it to be more logical and better organizationally for my apps/web sites that use external data files to have a separate folder in the data directory called ‘xml’ (or ‘JSON’, or whatever).

Just a suggestion.