I am building a Live Search function on my website, I used the W3schools example, which worked perfectly. But I want to use MySQL database instead of the XML file, so I am working on a code to take the MySQL database and turn it into an XML file.
<?php
header("Content-type: text/xml");
include 'dbc.php';
$query = "SELECT * FROM airports";
$result = mysql_query($query, $link)
or die('Error querying database.');
$xml_output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n";
$xml_output .= "<entries>\n";
for($x = 0 ; $x < mysql_num_rows($result) ; $x++){
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$xml_output .= "\t<entry>\n";
$xml_output .= "\t\t<ident>" . $row['ident'] . "</ident>\n";
// Escaping illegal characters
$row['name'] = str_replace("&", "&", $row['name']);
$row['name'] = str_replace("<", "<", $row['name']);
$row['name'] = str_replace(">", ">", $row['name']);
$row['name'] = str_replace("\"", """, $row['name']);
$xml_output .= "\t\t<name>" . $row['name'] . "</name>\n";
$xml_output .= "\t</entry>\n";
}
$xml_output .= "</entries>";
echo $xml_output;
?>
I am getting this error:
Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: Start tag expected, '<' not found in /public_html/sql2xml.php, line: 11 in /public_html/livesearch.php on line 12
no suggestion
I have read the explanation at: Avoid DOMDocument XML warnings in php But I have no idea how to fix that in my code. Any suggestions?