.XML help needed

Trcyng SG

Hi, I have a problem. I have a webpage in which I need to change language, so I came up with a .XML file with various language like malay, chinese and english.

So in my index.php, I have

<?php
session_start();
include 'linkings.php';
include 'parseXML.php';
?>

So the parseXML.php is the instructions for the XML dictionary to work.

I could link the index and the parseXML.php and my database, but the problem is that how could I display the values in my webpage?

e.g. <?php echo $lang->login; ?> but the login doesn't display...

LatecomerX SG

What object does the $lang variable contain in the first place? Please don't just show us a few lines of code and expect us to know how does your code works. The least you can do is to upload a sufficient amount of your code to a file host and paste the download URL here.

Trcyng SG

This is a file:

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<?php

//---------------------------
// Parse XML
//---------------------------

if (isset($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'])) {

    if (file_exists("lang.xml")) {
        $xml = simplexml_load_file("lang.xml");
    }
    else {
        die("Language file not found");
    }

    if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "language") {
        $lang = $xml->English;
    }
    else if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "Malay") {
        $lang = $xml->Malay;
    }
    else if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "Swedish") {
        $lang = $xml->Swedish;
    }
}
else {
    if (file_exists("lang.xml")) {
        $xml = simplexml_load_file("lang.xml");
        $lang = $xml->English;
    }
    else {
        die("Language file not found");
        /* Cannot be Language File Not found because RP have secured the FTP vulnerabilities*/
    }
}

?>

-----------------------------

2nd File:

<?php

function showloginForm(){
    echo "<table >
    <form name='loginform' id='loginform' action='login.php' method='post'>
    <tr >
        <td align='left'>";
        echo $lang-> language -> username;
        echo ":</td>
        <td ><input type='text' name='log' id='log' value='' size='15'tabindex='1' /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr >
        <td>"; $lang->password; echo "</td>
        <td><input type='password' name='pwd' id='pwd' value='' size='15' tabindex='2' /></td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td align='center' colspan='2'><a href='register.php'>Register</a>|<a href''>Forgot Login</a> | <input type='submit' name='submit' id='submit' value='Login' tabindex='4' /></font></td>
    </tr>
</table>";

}
?>

------------------------------------

3rd file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<languages>
    <language>
        <type>English</type>
        <title>Login Form</title>
        <username>Username</username>
        <password>Password</password>
        <forgot>Forgot your password? Click here</forgot>

</language>

-----------------------------------

The problem is, why I cannot echo out the username and password?

Trcyng SG

anyway, the lang.xml is just a small part of it.

GIB SG

Don't know if it will work but you can try to modify your XML file to below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<languages>
    <english>
        <title>Login Form</title>
        <username>Username</username>
        <password>Password</password>
        <forgot>Forgot your password? Click here</forgot>
    </english>
    <malay>
        <title>Malay Login Form</title>
        <username>Malay Username</username>
        <password>Malay Password</password>
        <forgot>Malay Forgot your password? Click here</forgot>
    </malay>
</languages>

Then change this part

if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "language") {
        $lang = $xml->English;
    }
    else if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "Malay") {
        $lang = $xml->Malay;
    }
    else if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "Swedish") {
        $lang = $xml->Swedish;
    }

if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "language") {
        $lang = $xml->english;
    }
else {
        $lang = eval("\$xml->" . strtolower($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage']) . ";");
}

Change

echo $lang-> language -> username;

echo $lang->username;

Trcyng SG

Ok, I have tried to modify the codes but it still cannot work... anyway;

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1st file; ParseXML.php (This file displayed errors ; Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ELSE in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\plaincart\parseXML.php on line 22)

<?php

//---------------------------
// Parse XML
//---------------------------

if (isset($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'])) {

    if (file_exists("lang.xml")) {
        $xml = simplexml_load_file("lang.xml");
    }
    else {
        die("Language file not found");
    }

    if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "language") {
        $lang = $xml->english;
    }
    else {
        $lang = eval("\$xml->" . strtolower($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage']) . ";");
}
    else if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "malay") {
        $lang = $xml->malay;
    }
    else if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "swedish") {
        $lang = $xml->swedish;
    }
}
else {
    if (file_exists("lang.xml")) {
        $xml = simplexml_load_file("lang.xml");
        $lang = $xml->english;
    }
    else {
        die("Language file not found");
    }
}

?>

------------------------------------------------

2nd file: linkings;

function showloginForm(){
    echo "<table >
    <form name='loginform' id='loginform' action='login.php' method='post'>
    <tr >
        <td align='left'>";
        echo $lang->username;
        echo ":</td>
        <td ><input type='text' name='log' id='log' value='' size='15'tabindex='1' /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr >
        <td>"; $lang->password; echo "</td>
        <td><input type='password' name='pwd' id='pwd' value='' size='15' tabindex='2' /></td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td align='center' colspan='2'><a href='register.php'>Register</a>|<a href''>Forgot Login</a> | <input type='submit' name='submit' id='submit' value='Login' tabindex='4' /></font></td>
    </tr>
</table>";

}

---------------------------------------------

3rd file;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<languages>
    <english>
        <type>English</type>
        <title>Login Form</title>
        <username>Username</username>
        <password>Password</password>

......................

so that will be it, any help??

GIB SG

if (isset($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'])) {

    if (file_exists("lang.xml")) {
        $xml = simplexml_load_file("lang.xml");
    }
    else {
        die("Language file not found");
    }

    if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "language") {
        $lang = $xml->english;
    }
    else {
        $lang = eval("\$xml->" . strtolower($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage']) . ";");
   }
    else if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "malay") {
        $lang = $xml->malay;
    }
    else if ($_COOKIE['cookieLanguage'] == "swedish") {
        $lang = $xml->swedish;
    }
}
else {
    if (file_exists("lang.xml")) {
        $xml = simplexml_load_file("lang.xml");
        $lang = $xml->english;
    }
    else {
        die("Language file not found");
    }
}

Remove the part that is in red. The eval code will handle all your language cases.

function showloginForm(){
    echo "<table >
    <form name='loginform' id='loginform' action='login.php' method='post'>
    <tr >
        <td align='left'>";
        echo $lang->username;
        echo ":</td>
        <td ><input type='text' name='log' id='log' value='' size='15'tabindex='1' /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr >
        <td>"; echo $lang->password; echo "</td>
        <td><input type='password' name='pwd' id='pwd' value='' size='15' tabindex='2' /></td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td align='center' colspan='2'><a href='register.php'>Register</a>|<a href''>Forgot Login</a> | <input type='submit' name='submit' id='submit' value='Login' tabindex='4' /></font></td>
    </tr>
</table>";

}

Added the part in red.