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kdevs3
kdevs3

Reputation: 45

Why isn't this PHP snippet working?

In localhost (using Wamp on windows). I'm trying to use this:

<?
$xml = simplexml_load_file(‘http://stocklamp.tumblr.com/api/read/xml’);
$posts = $xml->xpath(“/tumblr/posts/post[@type=’regular’]”);
foreach($posts as $post) {?>  
<?echo $post[‘id’];?>
<?echo $post[‘url-with-slug’];?>”>
<?echo $post->{‘regular-title’};?>
<?echo $post->{‘regular-body’};?>
<?echo date(“jS D M, H:i”,strtotime($post[‘date’]));?>
<?}?>

When trying, all I see is this on my site:

xpath(“/tumblr/posts/post[@type=’regular’]”); foreach($posts as $post) { ?> ”> {‘regular-title’};?> {‘regular-body’};?>

I found the snippet here:

http://stocklamp.tumblr.com/post/274675902/putting-your-tumblr-posts-on-your-websites-the-easy-way

Edit: fixed. Now I'm getting

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in C:\wamp\www..\index.php on line 52

and it is this line:

$xml = simplexml_load_file(‘http://stocklamp.tumblr.com/api/read/xml’);

I keep getting this error: http://codepad.org/7f1IejIG

Okay. Now I go that fixed, but how do I get the posts by tag?

changing 'type=...' doesn't work.

$posts = $xml->xpath("/tumblr/posts/post[@type='file']");

Upvotes: 0

Views: 239

Answers (3)

SeanCannon
SeanCannon

Reputation: 77996

You are using curly quotes. Try this:

<?
    $xml = simplexml_load_file('http://stocklamp.tumblr.com/api/read');
    $posts = $xml->xpath("/tumblr/posts/post[@type='regular']");
    foreach($posts as $post) {  
    echo $post['id'];
    echo $post['url-with-slug'];
    echo $post->{'regular-title'};
    echo $post->{'regular-body'};
    echo date("jS D M, H:i",strtotime($post['date']));
    }
?>

Upvotes: 2

Jared Farrish
Jared Farrish

Reputation: 49208

The last problem is to resolve is that the API XML url provided on the blog is not right. The following works:

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://stocklamp.tumblr.com/api/read/'); // No /xml
$posts = $xml->xpath('/tumblr/posts/post[@type="regular"]');
foreach($posts as $post) {?>  
<?echo $post['id'];?>
<?echo $post['url-with-slug'];?>”>
<?echo $post->{'regular-title'};?>
<?echo $post->{'regular-body'};?>
<?echo date("jS D M, H:i",strtotime($post['date']));?>
<?}?>

http://jfcoder.com/test/tumblrtest.php

EDIT

Try running this code without the tags interspersed:

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://stocklamp.tumblr.com/api/read/'); // No /xml
$posts = $xml->xpath('/tumblr/posts/post[@type="regular"]');
foreach($posts as $post) {  
    echo $post['id'];
    echo $post['url-with-slug'];
    echo $post->{'regular-title'};
    echo $post->{'regular-body'};
    echo date("jS D M, H:i",strtotime($post['date']));
}
?>

Upvotes: 0

Cyclone
Cyclone

Reputation: 18295

Your page isn't running as PHP. If you view source, you'll see the entire PHP code visible on your page as plain HTML.

The bit that displays is after the $xml-> bit, because it thinks the opening php tag and the -> are one big html tag.

Is the file extension .php? What's the file name? Where did you put this code? Try replacing <? with <?php, sometimes web servers don't have short tags enabled.

Upvotes: 3

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