PHP - Bangging My Head Against Wsdl / Soap Call

Hi all,

I'm a newbie in PHP trying to move away from the .net platform. I seem to have run into my first challenge passing a complex type back to my web service. The web service is a live test site to test against. I've tested the service on .net and it works fine...but I think I'm missing something as I try porting over to PHP?

I've written some short code to keep it simple:

<?php
$SearchCriteria = array("ObjectType"=>1);

$parameters['user'] = "johndoe1";
$parameters['password'] = "snowball";
$parameters['SearchCriteria'] = $SearchCriteria ;

$client = new SoapClient("https://servicestest.mcquaig.com/mws.asmx?WSDL");
$result = $client->__soapCall('Find', $parameters);
?>

....against this portion of XML:

 <s:element name="Find">
        <s:complexType>
          <s:sequence>
            <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="user" type="s:string"/>
            <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="password" type="s:string"/>
            <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="criteria" type="tns:SearchCriteria"/>
          </s:sequence>
        </s:complexType>
      </s:element>
      <s:complexType name="SearchCriteria">
        <s:sequence>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="AccountName" type="s:string"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="ApplySharing" type="s:boolean"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="CGType" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="ClientRefID" type="s:string"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Composites" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="ConfNo" type="s:string"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="Email" type="s:string"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Expired" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="ExpiryTSA" type="s:dateTime"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="ExpiryTSZ" type="s:dateTime"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="FirstName" type="s:string"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="FormLangID" type="s:unsignedLong"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="FunctionalArea" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Gender" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Industry" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="JobTitle" type="s:string"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="LastName" type="s:string"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="LastUsedTSA" type="s:dateTime"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="LastUsedTSZ" type="s:dateTime"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="NoRelated" type="s:boolean"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="ObjectType" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="OrgID" type="s:unsignedLong"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Position" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="ProfileType" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Recursive" type="s:boolean"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Status" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Type" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="UnitsRemain" type="s:int"/>
          <s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="UnitsRemainGT" type="s:boolean"/>
        </s:sequence>
      </s:complexType>



Nothing I seem to do works. I end up with the same error:

Uncaught SoapFault exception: [soap:Server] Server was unable to process request. ---> Value does not fall within the expected range.

Using NuSoap as:

<?php
require_once('lib/nusoap.php');

$SearchCriteria = array("ObjectType"=>1);

$wsdlURL = "https://servicestest.mcquaig.com/mws.asmx?WSDL";
$soap = new nusoap_client($wsdlURL);

$parameters['user'] = "johndoe1";
$parameters['password'] = "snowball";
$parameters['criteria'] = $SearchCriteria ;


$result = $soap->call("Find", $parameters);
if($error = $soap->getError()){ die($error);}
?>

I get this error:

soap:Client: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: .




I'm stumped and sure it's something small, but I just don't see what I'm missing??  Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!

Gary

I was accessing a wsdl file, using php, using normal php SoapClient code.
$soap=new SoapClient(WSDL_FILE_LOCATION);

The code ran properly in localhost. But, when I uploaded the files in my free server 000webhost.com. I get the following error

Fatal error:  Class 'SoapClient' not found in /home/****/public_html/myfile.php on line 12

The error points to SoapClient(WSDL_FILE_LOCATION); line

I couldn't understand the problem.
Can someone please help me out?

Thanks in advance

Hi all,

Hi,

A consumer give me  WSDL that describe SOAP messages in order to communicate together by Web services.

The first WSDL is a webservice that I consume, no problem for this part.
But the second one must be implemented in our side, a wsdl is provided to describe the ws that we must develop. The problem is that I don't know how to do? Is a tool exist to generate server code from a wsdl? should I develop from scratch and try to match the wsdl? Any clue will be welcome.

Regards,

Kyor

I'm able to consume a local WSDL into PHP, and pass/return basic data successfully, but when I attempt to pass in objects that correspond to a complextype in the WSDL, I get the following error:

SoapFault exception: [soapenv:Server] javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: com.ibm.websphere.sca.ServiceRuntimeException: An error occurred while parsing native data: The error message is: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mismatched parameter count: expecting 1 items, but got more.. Caused By: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mismatched parameter count: expecting 1 items, but got more.: caused by: An error occurred while parsing native data: The error message is: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mismatched parameter count: expecting 1 items, but got more.. Caused By: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mismatched parameter count: expecting 1 items, but got more. in C:\wamp\www\SugarCE\testSOAPShawn.php:65 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: SoapClient->__call('establishIdenti...', Array) #1 C:\wamp\www\SugarCE\testSOAPShawn.php(65): SoapClient->establishIdentity(Object(stdClass), Object(stdClass)) #2 {main}

Here is the snippets from the WSDL:

Code: [Select]
<xsd:element name="establishIdentity">
−
<xsd:complexType>
−
<xsd:sequence>
−
<xsd:element name="processId" nillable="true" type="xsd:string">
−
<xsd:annotation>
−
<xsd:documentation>
Identifies a specific instance of the dialogue process.  Returned from the start() operation.
</xsd:documentation>
</xsd:annotation>
</xsd:element>
−
<xsd:element name="identityAttributes" nillable="true" type="bons1:IdentityAttributes">
−
<xsd:annotation>
−
<xsd:documentation>
Key identifying attributes of a program participant.
</xsd:documentation>
</xsd:annotation>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
Here is my code with comments where the error occurs:

<?php
set_time_limit(0);
require_once('nusoap.php');

$client = new SoapClient('C:\wsdl\BenefitDeterminationProcess_BenefitDialogueServiceSOAP.wsdl', array('trace' => 1));

$start = $client->__soapCall('start', array(new SoapParam((string)'GenesisID', 'prefix')),
        array('soapaction' => 'C:\wsdl\BenefitDeterminationProcess_BenefitDialogueServiceSOAP\start'));

$processID = $start;

$exchange = $client->__soapCall('exchangeOptions', array(new SoapParam($processID, 'processId')),
        array('soapaction' => 'C:\wsdl\BenefitDeterminationProcess_BenefitDialogueServiceSOAP\exchangeOptions'));

$identityAttributes = new StdClass();
$identityAttributes->IdentityAttributes = new StdClass();
$identityAttributes->IdentityAttributes->ssn = 41441414;
$identityAttributes->IdentityAttributes->firstName = 'John2';
$identityAttributes->IdentityAttributes->lastName = 'Doe2';
$identityAttributes->IdentityAttributes->gender = 'MALE';
$identityAttributes->IdentityAttributes->birthDate = null;

try{
    $identity = $client->establishIdentity($processID, $identityAttributes); //ERROR


   } catch (SoapFault $f){
       echo "ERROR!";
   }

$end = $client->__soapCall('stop', array(new SoapParam($processID, 'processId')),
       array('soapaction' => 'C:\wsdl\BenefitDeterminationProcess_BenefitDialogueServiceSOAP\stop'));

?>

Any assistance is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=319682.0

I can call the following function successfully as a single php program

  // Acknowledge and clear the orders
   function ack($client, $merchant, $id) {
         $docs = array('string' => $id);
         $params = array('merchant' => $merchant, 'documentIdentifierArray' => $docs);
         $result = $client->call('postDocumentDownloadAck', $params);
         return $result;
         }
with

   $result = ack($t, $merchant,'2779540483');

successful output

    [documentDownloadAckProcessingStatus] => _SUCCESSFUL_
    [documentID] => 2779540483

I'm trying to figure out how to call this function as an object from another program.

Trying the following gives error  ***Call to a member function call() on a non-object***

  function postDocumentDownloadAck($t, $merchant, $id) {
     $this->error = null;
     $docs = array('string' => $this->id);
     $params = array('merchant' => $this->merchant, 'documentIdentifierArray' => $docs);

 **  I've tried the following which does nothing
     $result = $this->soap->call('postDocumentDownloadAck', $params);

** I've tried the following   -  which gives error "Call to a member function call() on a non-object"
     $result = $this->t->soap->call('postDocumentDownloadAck', $params);

     if($this->soap->fault) {
        $this->error = $result;
        return false;
     }

     return $result;
  }


***

calling program snippet for above function
   $merchant= array( "merchant"=> $merchantid, "merchantName" => $merchantname, "email"=> $login, "password"=> $password);
   $t = new AmazonMerchantAPI($merchantid, $merchantname, $login, $password);
   $documentlist= $t->GetAllPendingDocumentInfo('_GET_ORDERS_DATA_');
   $docid = $documentlist['MerchantDocumentInfo'][$i]['documentID'];
   $docs = array('string' => $docid);
   $ackorders = $t->postDocumentDownloadAck($t, $merchant,$docs);

Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong are greatly appreciated.

Ok, so I've read a few tutorials of OOP and have a basic understanding of how it works but where is it generally handy? I have a basic site created with PHP that consists of a form that submits data to MySQL and then lists the data from the MySQL database on another page. Kind of like a little online planner. I don't see how me converting my site to use OOP would help here.

Maybe it's best for more complex situations such as a shopping cart where data needs to be shared across multiple pages? 

Hello,

I've been trying this for hours now, looking at different examples and trying to change them to work for me, but with no luck...

This is what I am trying to do:

I have a simple form with:
- 1 input field, where I can enter a number
- 1 Submit Button

When I enter a number into the field and click submit, I want that number to be send to the php file that is in the ajax call, then the script will take that number and run a bunch of queries and then return a new number. I want that new number to be used to call the php script via ajax again, until no number is returned, or something else is returned like the word "done" or something like that, at which point is simply makes an alert or populated a div with a message...

The point is, that depending on the number entered it could take up to an hour to complete ALL the queries, so I want the script that is called to only run a fixed amount of queries at a time and then return the number it is currently at (+1), so that it can continue with the next number when it is called again.

I would like to use jquery, but could also be any other way, as long as I get this to work. I already have the php script completed that needs to be called by the ajax, it returns a single number when being called.

Thank you,
vb

first i have a standard html page. Just a form that submits data to upload.php

http://pixel.imgboard.co.uk

here is upload.php - note i know i have some weird echo's but ive been trying for 2 hours to get upload.php to display something... but nothing happens.. i cant even get it to output html. It just goes to upload.php and has a blank page. When i view source there is nothing there. Its literally a blank page. I can't work it out.  someone please help. I'm going to crack up.


<?php
ini_set("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
session_start();
include 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk/includes/functions.php';



$start =  "
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">  
<html>
<head>
<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"http://www.imgboard.co.uk/style/pixel.css\" />
<title> Pixel - Image Hosting Beta</title>

</head>

<body>
    <div id =\"wrapper\">
    <div class = 'titlebar'>
    <div class = 'titlebarlinkbox'>
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk'>Forum</a>
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk/Wiki.php'>Wikis</a>
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk/bulletins/0'>Bulletins</a>
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk/faq/0'>Faq's</a>
    </div>
    </div>
    <div class = \"logo\"></div>


";


$end =  "
<div class = 'footerLinks'>
     
     Pixel @ 2010 - 2015 ! <br />
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk'>Forum</a> | 
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk/Wiki.php'>Wikis</a> | 
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk/bulletins/0'>Bulletins</a> | 
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk/faq/0'>Faq's</a> | 
    <a href = 'http://www.imgboard.co.uk/pixel/report.php'>Report Image</a>

</div>
<div class = 'TnC'>Pixel is a Trademark of imgboard.co.uk. Please ensure all content uploaded is decent. No Taboo, cp, gore allowed. Porn / memes / misc themes all welcome. Any offensive content will be removed and deleted. Any misuse of the service and result in banning and in seviere cases prosecution.</div>

    </div>
</body>
</html>


";



if(isset($_GET['uploadfile'])){

echo $start;
echo $end;


$validExtensions = array("png", "gif", "jpeg", "jpg", "bmp");
                                       $ext = end(explode(".",$_FILES["image"]["name"]));
                                       $ext2= strtolower($ext);


if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/png")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/bmp")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/pjpeg"))
&& ($_FILES["file"]["size"] < 10000000))
&& in_array($ext2,$validExtensions))
   {
      

//create a unique name. 
$newname = date(dmYhis);
$newname .= rand(1111,9999);
//preg replace non alpha numeric characters

$fname = $_FILES['file']['name'];
$newname = $newname . "." .$ext2;

$location = "http://www.imgboard.co.uk/images/".$newname;
      
//copy the file. 

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'],$location)){

//file uploaded create display Page. 
$t = $_POST['tags'];
add_uploaded_image($location,$t);
file_upload_display_page($location);

}

else{

die("Error Occured Moving File");
}
 




 }
 
 else{
 
 die("wrong mime type");
 
 }






}



function add_uploaded_image($link, $tags){

$c = protect($_COOKIE['supercookie']);
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$t = protect($tags);

mysql_query("INSERT INTO pixel (filename,tags,date,ip,cookie) VALUES ('$link','$t',NOW(),'$ip','$c')") or die(mysql_error());

}



function file_upload_display_page($location){

echo "

   
    <table class = 'uploadTable' cellspacing = '0'>
    
    
    
    
    <tr>
    <td class = \"label\">
    Image Uploaded: </td><td><img src = '$location' HEIGHT = '150'/>
    </td>
    </tr>
    
    <tr>
    <td class = \"label\">
    Direct Link: </td><td><input type = 'text' name = 'file' id = 'file'  value = '$location'/>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td class = \"label\">
    Html Code </td><td><input type = 'text' name = 'tags'  value = \"<img src = '$location' ALT = 'Hosted On http://Pixel.imgboard.co.uk'/>\"/>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>
     <td class = \"label\">
    BB Code: </td><td><input type = 'text' name = 'file' id = 'file'  value = '[img]http://$location[/img]'/>
    </td>
    </td>
    </tr>
      
    
    </table>
    
    
    


";






}

Hi All,

I am trying to use headers at the end of functions to put the user where they need to be.

header("location: register.php?user_may_exist");

I understand how they work and their qwuirks.

My issue is, in my head file, i am outputting which causes issues for the headers which come after.

I have the following in head.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<title>
		<?php 
			if(isset($currentPageTitle)){
				echo $currentPageTitle;
			}else{
				echo 'Cricket Club';
			}; 
		?>
	</title>
	<?php 
			if(isset($currentPageMeta)){
				echo "<meta name='description' content='$currentPageMeta'>";
			}else{
				echo "<meta name='description' content='All the latest from CC'>";
			}; 
		?>
	
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Is there a better way for me to achieve this?

how you doing guys. I'm having a little bit of a problem right now, with this thing call view-profile.php, i hope you guys know what it is, I'm new to php, so please try to help.
it says the same thing everytime.

Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in C:\xampp\htdocs\siteS\viewprofile.php on line 26

There was a problem accessing your profile


<h3>Mismatch - View Profile</h3>

<?php
  require_once('appvars.php');
  require_once('connectvars.php');

  // Connect to the database
  $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', '***', '*****', '*****');

  // Grab the profile data from the database
  if (!isset($_GET['user_id'])) {
    $query = "SELECT username, first_name, last_name, gender, birthdate, city, state, picture FROM mismatch_user WHERE user_id = '$user_id'";
  }
  else {
    $query = "SELECT username, first_name, last_name, gender, birthdate, city, state, picture FROM mismatch_user WHERE user_id = '" . $_GET['user_id'] . "'";
  }
  $data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
line26-----------> if (mysqli_num_rows($data) == 1) {
    // The user row was found so display the user data
    $row = mysqli_fetch_array($data);
    echo '<table>';
    if (!empty($row['username'])) {
      echo '<tr><td class="label">Username:</td><td>' . $row['username'] . '</td></tr>';
    }
    if (!empty($row['first_name'])) {
      echo '<tr><td class="label">First name:</td><td>' . $row['first_name'] . '</td></tr>';
    }
    if (!empty($row['last_name'])) {
      echo '<tr><td class="label">Last name:</td><td>' . $row['last_name'] . '</td></tr>';
    }
    if (!empty($row['gender'])) {
      echo '<tr><td class="label">Gender:</td><td>';
      if ($row['gender'] == 'M') {
        echo 'Male';
      }
      else if ($row['gender'] == 'F') {
        echo 'Female';
      }
      else {
        echo '?';
      }
      echo '</td></tr>';
    }
    if (!empty($row['birthdate'])) {
      if (!isset($_GET['user_id']) || ($user_id == $_GET['user_id'])) {
        // Show the user their own birthdate
        echo '<tr><td class="label">Birthdate:</td><td>' . $row['birthdate'] . '</td></tr>';
      }
      else {
        // Show only the birth year for everyone else
        list($year, $month, $day) = explode('-', $row['birthdate']);
        echo '<tr><td class="label">Year born:</td><td>' . $year . '</td></tr>';
      }
    }
    if (!empty($row['city']) || !empty($row['state'])) {
      echo '<tr><td class="label">Location:</td><td>' . $row['city'] . ', ' . $row['state'] . '</td></tr>';
    }
    if (!empty($row['picture'])) {
      echo '<tr><td class="label">Pictu </td><td><img src="' . MM_UPLOADPATH . $row['picture'] .
        '" alt="Profile Picture" /></td></tr>';
    }
    echo '</table>';
    if (!isset($_GET['user_id']) || ($user_id == $_GET['user_id'])) {
      echo '<p>Would you like to <a href="editprofile.php">edit your profile</a>?</p>';
    }
  } // End of check for a single row of user results
  else {
    echo '<p class="error">There was a problem accessing your profile.</p>';
  }

  mysqli_close($dbc);
?>

hey guys how you doing? I've been having a little bit of problem with php, in fact I'm frustrated, so please if you can help me in any tight of way, please do,
I've been trying to make this php code work, but it won't, i don't know what I'm doing wrong, I'm new to php and mysql

every time i try it, it saids one thing

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampp\htdocs\siteN\approvescore.php:3) in C:\xampp\htdocs\siteN\authorize.php on line 17


<?php
  require_once ('authorize.php');
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Guitar Wars - Approve a High Score</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h2>Guitar Wars - Approve a High Score</h2>

<?php
  require_once('appvars.php');
  require_once('connectvars.php');

  if (isset($_GET['id']) && isset($_GET['date']) && isset($_GET['name']) && isset($_GET['score'])) {
    // Grab the score data from the GET
    $id = $_GET['id'];
    $date = $_GET['date'];
    $name = $_GET['name'];
    $score = $_GET['score'];
    $screenshot = $_GET['screenshot'];
  }
  else if (isset($_POST['id']) && isset($_POST['name']) && isset($_POST['score'])) {
    // Grab the score data from the POST
    $id = $_POST['id'];
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $score = $_POST['score'];
  }
  else {
    echo '<p class="error">Sorry, no high score was specified for approval.</p>';
  }

  if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    if ($_POST['confirm'] == 'Yes') {
      // Connect to the database
      $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', '999', 'adsd', 'guitarwars3');

      // Approve the score by setting the approved column in the database
      $query = "UPDATE gtwars1 SET approved = 1 WHERE id = $id";
      mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
      mysqli_close($dbc);

      // Confirm success with the user
      echo '<p>The high score of ' . $score . ' for ' . $name . ' was successfully approved.';
    }
    else {
      echo '<p class="error">Sorry, there was a problem approving the high score.</p>';
    }
  }
  else if (isset($id) && isset($name) && isset($date) && isset($score)) {
    echo '<p>Are you sure you want to approve the following high score?</p>';
    echo '<p><strong>Name: </strong>' . $name . '<br /><strong>Date: </strong>' . $date .
      '<br /><strong>Sco </strong>' . $score . '</p>';
    echo '<form method="post" action="approvescore.php">';
    echo '<img src="' . GW_UPLOADPATH . $screenshot . '" width="160" alt="Score image" /><br />';
    echo '<input type="radio" name="confirm" value="Yes" /> Yes ';
    echo '<input type="radio" name="confirm" value="No" checked="checked" /> No <br />';
    echo '<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" />';
    echo '<input type="hidden" name="id" value="' . $id . '" />';
    echo '<input type="hidden" name="name" value="' . $name . '" />';
    echo '<input type="hidden" name="score" value="' . $score . '" />';
    echo '</form>';
  }

  echo '<p><a href="admin.php">&lt;&lt; Back to admin page</a></p>';
?>

It's not usual I ask questions on here - I usually help rather than be helped but alas, this is really confusing  !

Short Story (You can skip this to "Your Mission")
Without going into unnecessary detail i'll try to explain what i'm trying to do;

Take an array (example provided...) Array(
// These must be here, they are initially read by the template parser to get a starting point.
"data"=>Array(
"template"=>"main", // Template to start from (base template)
"content"=>"%custom_topmenu% <Br/>Table<Br/> %bigtablecustom1%", // replace %content% tag,Shows 2 Examples, A Custom Menu, and Main Table with Smaller Tables inside
),
// Below is numerically indexed arrays of content that will replace tags in the above "content" item
0=>Array(
"data"=>Array(
"rkey"=>"%bigtablecustom1%", // MUST have this item
"template"=>"bigtable_single", // MUST have this item
0=>Array(
"%title%"=>"Some Table Heading",
"%footer%"=>"Some Table Footer Message (author?)",
"%content%"=>"Some Content for the table with another rkey: %smalltablecustom1% --- %smalltablecustom2%",
"%title_note%"=>"Some Time and Date"
)
),
0=>Array(
"data"=>Array(
"rkey"=>"%smalltablecustom1%",
"template"=>"smalltable_single",
0=>Array(
"%title%"=>"Small Title",
"%content%"=>"Some Small Content or Note"
)
)
),
1=>Array(
"data"=>Array(
"rkey"=>"%smalltablecustom2%",
"template"=>"smalltable_single",
0=>Array(
"%title%"=>"Small Title 2",
"%content%"=>"Some Small Content or Note"
)
)
)
)
1=>Array(
// The menu is dynamically created by the module using it's inherited protected methods.
"data"=>Array(
"rkey"=>"%custom_topmenu%",
"template"=>"custom_topmenu",
0=>Array(
"%item1_name%"=>"Sub-Link 1",
"%item1_link%"=>"#",
"%item2_name%"=>"Sub-Link 2",
"%item2_link%"=>"#",
"%item3_name%"=>"Sub-Link 3",
"%item3_link%"=>"#",
"%item4_name%"=>"Sub-Link 4",
"%item4_link%"=>"#"
)
)
)
)
Turn this array into a single document, basically collpase all items with their children in the parent code.
The Problem (You can skip this to "Your Mission")
Now to make it easier and to (try) to prevent cross-tag contamination (so templates dont replace content that is supposed to be there from other template files...) I have wrote a recursion function that fills out all the content and removes the content sub-array from the data arrays (half the job).

So now I have a multi-dimensional array that needs collapsing into a single document (variable), I am getting confused with how to go through this array (below - not above) so that all the template items are "inserted" inside their parent array items.

The Function I made   
// Recursive, goes through an array and converts any "data" into actual templates. (Puts the content into a template)
private function parse_template_data_array($array){

// First let's count how many items are in the array that was passed to us
$item_count = count($array);

// This should never happen, each array should have at least a "data" array inside.
if($item_count < 1){
// Template Parser Fatal Object Syntax Error
exit("FATAL PARSER ERROR1");

// If there is only one item, we don't need to recurse (There are no "child" elements) and so we skip the recursive section.
}else if($item_count == 1){
// No items to parse, move on

// So there are some child elements we must recurse through.
}else{
// So this loops each "Child" element and passes that array to this function (recurse), Once it's finished it saves the array (result).
for($i=0;$i<($item_count-1);$i++){ // -1 from the count, 1 to get rid of the data array.
$array[$i] = $this->parse_template_data_array($array[$i]);
}
}

// This part does the initial "template expansion", it finds the template needed for this item and saves it with the content to this item.

// So we count how many data items we have
$dcount = count($array['data']); // Count Data Items (minimum of 2 - Each data array must have "rkey" and "template")

// If there isn't at least two items then someone made a booboo.
if($dcount < 2){
// Template Parser Fatal Object Syntax Error
exit("FATAL PARSER ERROR2");

// Otherwise let's sort this content out (We don't check if we only have the 2 minimum items since templates might not have Tags to replace).
}else{
// Load Template file using the "template" item in the data array.
$template = $this->get_file($array['data']['template']);

// Count the amount of data items (content) to replace tags inside the loaded template (If there is no content sub-array then put to 0 to skip the below part).
$dstrcount = (isset($array['data'][0]))? count($array['data'][0]) : 0;

// No template content, maybe no tags, just give the template content back.
if($dstrcount < 1){
// No items to parse

// We have some content to replace.
}else{

// We need the keys of the content sub-array so we can use (a neat feature of) the str_replace function.
$akeys = array_keys($array['data'][0]);
$template = str_replace($akeys ,$array['data'][0],$template);
}

// Save the result into this array item so we can pass the whole item back (This is also what happens when it recurses above)
$array['data']['content'] = $template;
}

// Return the result array.
return $array;
}

The Array returned by the above function   
Array
(
    [data] => Array
        (
            [rkey] => %cdb_res_tpl_blk%
            [template] => main
            [content] => <html><head></head><body>%custom_topmenu%<br />%bigtablecustom1%</body></html>
        )

    [0] => Array
        (
            [data] => Array
                (
                    [rkey] => %bigtablecustom1%
                    [template] => bigtable_single
                    [content] => "Some Table Heading"=>"Some Table Heading",
"Some Table Footer Message (author?)"=>"Some Table Footer Message (author?)",
"Some Content for the table with another rkey: %smalltablecustom1% --- %smalltablecustom2%"=>"Some Content for the table with another rkey: %smalltablecustom1% --- %smalltablecustom2%",
"Some Time and Date"=>"Some Time and Date"


                )

            [0] => Array
                (
                    [data] => Array
                        (
                            [rkey] => %smalltablecustom1%
                            [template] => smalltable_single
                            [content] => "Small Title"=>"Small Title",
"Some Small Content or Note"=>"Some Small Content or Note"



                        )

                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [data] => Array
                        (
                            [rkey] => %smalltablecustom2%
                            [template] => smalltable_single
                            [content] => "Small Title 2"=>"Small Title",
"Some Small Content or Note"=>"Some Small Content or Note"



                        )

                )

        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [data] => Array
                (
                    [rkey] => %custom_topmenu%
                    [template] => custom_topmenu
                    [content] => "Sub-Link 1"=>"Sub-Link 1",
"#"=>"#",
"Sub-Link 2"=>"Sub-Link 2",
"#"=>"#",
"Sub-Link 3"=>"Sub-Link 3",
"#"=>"#",
"Sub-Link 4"=>"Sub-Link 4",
"#"=>"#"



                )

        )

)


Your mission
(Should you choose to accept ofc ), is to take the above array and turn it into a single html variable, with all the child elements inside their parent templates by replacing the tags in the array. All the data required is in the array, all that is needed is to "collapse" the array.

Things to bear in mind:
%cdb_res_tpl_blk% - This is in the original template file, so the result of a successfull collapse will replace this tag with the result. Dont worry about this one [rkey] - This is the "Tag" to replace in the "parent" content. [template] - This is the template file. [content] - This is the content that needs to go inside the parent item.
Expected Result
<html><head></head><body>"Sub-Link 1"=>"Sub-Link 1",
"#"=>"#",
"Sub-Link 2"=>"Sub-Link 2",
"#"=>"#",
"Sub-Link 3"=>"Sub-Link 3",
"#"=>"#",
"Sub-Link 4"=>"Sub-Link 4",
"#"=>"#"<br />"Some Table Heading"=>"Some Table Heading",
"Some Table Footer Message (author?)"=>"Some Table Footer Message (author?)",
"Some Content for the table with another rkey: "Small Title"=>"Small Title","Some Small Content or Note"=>"Some Small Content or Note" --- "Small Title 2"=>"Small Title","Some Small Content or Note"=>"Some Small Content or Note""=>"Some Content for the table with another rkey: %smalltablecustom1% --- %smalltablecustom2%",
"Some Time and Date"=>"Some Time and Date"</body></html>


I will be working on this myself and if I find a solution I will post here. It is just that the way I code is I put my idea in my head, then try to code it in my head categorically, but when I think I find a solution it seems there is a bug, such as it will only collpase the main element, the bigtable, and the first small table, it wont do the other small table and not the menu either so basically it doesnt recurse items in the same array, only those underneath it. I'm so close but yet...so far...

THANK YOU for ANY light you can shed on this situation it's been bugging me for a few days now (admittely have not coded since my first attempt - so tired.)

My Code
I won't provide the code I've done for it now since it just flat-out doesn't work, I've lost the code that I mentioned earlier that was bugged I modified and to be perfectly honest can't be bothered to reproduce it (it won't get me anywhere).

Hi all i provided a little code  to someone in the misc thread to block users based on the user agent language as an alternative to ipaddresses. I used switch for this but the each line is executed even if my language code is different. Anyone have an idea why the switch code below is messing with me?

<?php
if ( isset( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] ) ){

                $languages = strtolower( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] );

// $languages = ' fr-ch;q=0.3, da, en-us;q=0.8, en;q=0.5, fr;q=0.3';

// need to remove spaces from strings to avoid error

$languages = str_replace( ' ', '', $languages );

$languages = explode( ",", $languages );
                // do something when you don't like the language
                switch ($languages[0]) { // first array item
                    case 'ko': // korea
                        echo "do something or set a variable";
                        break;
                    case 'ru-md'||'ru': // russia
                        echo "do something or set a variable";
                        break;
                    case 'zh-cn'||'zh-hk'||'zh-mo'||'zh-sg'||'zh-tw'||'zh': // china
                        echo "do something or set a variable";
                        break;
                    case 'ne': // india
                        echo "do something or set a variable";
                        break;
                    default:
                       echo "good";                         
                }
}
?>

I changed it to a different code that uses in_array() which works, but i really would love to know why the above is not working as intended, i looked at php.net, but didn't found something nice in the comments. Maybe a guru out here that knows?

<?php
if ( isset( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] ) ){

                $languages = strtolower( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] );

// $languages = ' fr-ch;q=0.3, da, en-us;q=0.8, en;q=0.5, fr;q=0.3';

// need to remove spaces from strings to avoid error

$languages = str_replace( ' ', '', $languages );

$languages = explode( ",", $languages );
                // do something when you don't like the language           
                $lang_array = array('ko','ru-md','ru','zh-cn','zh-hk','zh-mo','zh-sg','zh-tw','zh','ne');
                
                if (in_array($languages[0], $lang_array)){
                    echo 'bad stuff';
                }else{
                    echo 'good stuff';
                }
}

?>


Thanks guys!!