This is the parser that I use for the Tutorials here on Codewalkers. I store the XML file and some related information in the database, but you could easily modify this to take it from a file. This isn't exactly how my page looks, but its pretty close...

By : Matt

<?
$query = "SELECT title,date,author,xml,views FROM cw_tutorials WHERE id=" . $show;
$result = $db->db_query($query);
$num_rows = $db->db_numrows($result);
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0);

$row = $db->db_fetch_array($result);
xml_parse_into_struct($parser,$row['xml'],$vals,$index);
xml_parser_free($parser);

$display = 0;
$countpages = 0;
echo "<TABLE width=\"95%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n";
echo "<TR>\n";
echo "<TD>\n";
for($i = 0; $i < count($vals); $i++) {
if($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'title' && $display == 0) {
echo "<CENTER><h2>" . $vals[$i]['value'] . "</h2></CENTER>\n";
}
if($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'author' && $display == 0) {
echo "<CENTER>by " . $vals[$i]['value'] . "</CENTER><BR><HR width=\"95%\">\n";
}
if($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'page' && $vals[$i]['type'] == 'open') {
$display = 1;
$countpages++;
}
if($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'page' && $vals[$i]['type'] == 'close') {
$display = 0;
}
if(($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'title') && ($display == 1)) {
$titles[$countpages] = $vals[$i]['value'];
}
if(($display == 1) && ($countpages == $page)) {
if($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'paragraph') {
$vals[$i]['value'] = ereg_replace("%url%", "<a href=\"", $vals[$i]['value']);
$vals[$i]['value'] = ereg_replace("%/url%", "</a>", $vals[$i]['value']);
$vals[$i]['value'] = ereg_replace("%text%", "\" target=\"blank\">", $vals[$i]['value']);
echo "<p>" . $vals[$i]['value'] . "</p>\n";
}
if($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'title') {
echo "<h3><b>" . $vals[$i]['value'] . "</b></h3>\n";
}
if($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'code') {
echo "<TABLE width=\"90%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n";
echo "<TR>\n";
echo "<TD>";
if(ereg("%php%",$vals[$i]['value'])) {
highlight_string("<?PHP\n" . trim(ereg_replace("%php%","",$vals[$i]['value'])) . "\n?>");
} else {
highlight_string(trim($vals[$i]['value']));
}
echo "</TD>\n";
echo "</TR>\n";
echo "</TABLE>\n";
echo "<BR>\n";
}
if($vals[$i]['tag'] == 'image') {
echo "<p><IMG SRC=\"" . $vals[$i]['value'] . "\" border=\"0\"></p>\n";
}
}
}
if($page > 1 || ($countpages - $page) > 0) {
echo "<HR width=\"95%\">\n";
}
echo "</TD>\n";
echo "</TR>\n";
echo "</TABLE>\n";
echo "<CENTER>\n";
if($page > 1 || ($countpages - $page) > 0) {

echo "<FORM ACTION=\"http://codewalkers.com/tutorials.php?show=" . $show . "\" METHOD=\"POST\" name=\"navform\">";
if($page > 1) {
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"prevvalue\" value=\"" . ($page - 1) . "\">";
echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"previous\" value=\"Previous\">";
}
if(($countpages - $page) > 0) {
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"nextvalue\" value=\"" . ($page + 1) . "\">";
echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"next\" value=\"Next\">";
}
echo "</FORM>";

}
echo "<FORM ACTION=\"tutorials.php\" METHOD=\"POST\" name=\"sectionform\">\n";
echo "Jump to Section: ";
echo "<SELECT name=\"section\">\n";
for($z=1;$z <= count($titles);$z++) {
if($page == $z) {
echo "<OPTION value=$z SELECTED>$titles[$z]</OPTION>\n";
} else {
echo "<OPTION value=$z>$titles[$z]</OPTION>\n";
}
}
echo "</SELECT>\n";
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"tutorial\" value=\"$show\">\n";
echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"submit\">\n";
echo "</FORM>\n";
echo "</CENTER>\n";
?>

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