Export Advanced Recordset from Database into XML

Question

I don't think I was clear on my previous post about my goal
with Exporting an advanced MySQL query to an XML file.
Simple example: I have a photo gallery that has pictures of
various Architect Projects. The main page shows distinct images of
various projects (like an index). When one clicks on this image to
view the rest of the Project details, a detail page opens with more
information and additional images within this project.
I want to use Spry/Ajax to give the images nice dynamic
effects on the detail page. Normally to get from an index page to a
detail page using normal server-side procedures, one would have to
set up a dynamic link to the detail page by passing the recordID
thru a URL Parameter. The detail page would have a recordset query
that would call the URL Parameter so that the distinct record
chosen will be the only record displayed.
When exporting this query from the database to XML, for some
reason the following query only displays the <row> node in
the schema when creating a Dataset. See the following sql query
that I am trying to use on the detail page to create the dataset
via XML:
SELECT*
FROM project_tbl
WHERE projectID = [URL PARAM] projectID
Why, when creating a dataset in Spry and exporting it into
XML, will this query NOT work?
What can I do to make this work? URGENT HELP will be kindly
appreciated.

Answer 1

Danilo,
I do not have a link yet as the files are on my remote
server. I have implemented the code you sent me but still no luck.
Please see the code I have below:
The XML Generating Page:
<?php require_once('../Connections/plymouth.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType,
$theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
$theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue)
: $theValue;
$theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ?
mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) :
mysql_escape_string($theValue);
switch ($theType) {
case "text":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" :
"NULL";
break;
case "long":
case "int":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
break;
case "double":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) .
"'" : "NULL";
break;
case "date":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" :
"NULL";
break;
case "defined":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue :
$theNotDefinedValue;
break;
return $theValue;
?>
<?php
// Query the database and get the selected records from
Project & Images
$colname_rsProject = "-1";
if (isset($_GET['projectID'])) {
$colname_rsProject = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ?
$_GET['projectID'] : addslashes($_GET['projectID']);
mysql_select_db($database_plymouth, $plymouth);
$query_rsProject = sprintf("SELECT * FROM projects_tbl WHERE
projectID = %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_rsProject, "int"));
$rsProject = mysql_query($query_rsProject, $plymouth) or
die(mysql_error());
$row_rsProject = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsProject);
$totalRows_rsProject = mysql_num_rows($rsProject);
// Send the headers
header('Content-type: text/xml');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Cache-control: private');
header('Expires: -1');
?>
<?php echo('<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?>'); ?>
<root>
<?php if ($totalRows_rsProject > 0) { // Show if
recordset not empty ?>
<?php do { ?>
<row>
<?php foreach ($row_rsProject as $column=>$value) {
?>
<<?php echo $column; ?>><?php echo
$row_rsProject[$column]; ?></<?php echo $column; ?>>
<?php } ?>
</row>
<?php } while ($row_rsProject =
mysql_fetch_assoc($rsProject)); ?>
<?php } // Show if recordset not empty ?>
</root>
<?php
mysql_free_result($rsProject);
?>
--------------------------------------------here is the
source code to the projecct_detail page to display the
content--------
The projectID from the category page is being passed via a
URL parameter. When I pull up the Spry Dataset in this page to
display the nodes, this is the error I received (Unable to locate
or parse the XML source (-1,-1). No nodes are being displayed.
<!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"><!--
InstanceBegin template="/Templates/temp.dwt.php"
codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<link href="global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
/>
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->
<script src="SpryAssets/xpath.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryData.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var ds1 = new
Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("xml/detail.php><?php echo(
isset($_GET['projectID'])?$_GET['projectID']:'' ); ?>", "row");
//-->
</script>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
</head>
<body class="oneColFixCtr">
<div id="container"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable
name="Main Content" -->
<div id="mainContent">
<h1> </h1>
<p> </p>
<!-- end #mainContent -->
</div>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<div id="footer">
<img src="images/banner.gif" width="500" height="66"
alt="Plymouth Road Architects" />
<br />
<div id="nav">
<table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="2"
cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td><div align="center"><a href="
http://plymouthroadarchitects.com">HOME</a></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><img
src="images/bullet.gif" width="8" height="8"
/></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><a
href="company_info.php">ABOUT/CONTACT
US</a></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><img
src="images/bullet.gif" alt="" width="8" height="8"
/></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><a
href="new_homes.php">NEW HOMES</a></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><img
src="images/bullet.gif" alt="" width="8" height="8"
/></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><a
href="additions.php">ADDITIONS</a></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><img
src="images/bullet.gif" alt="" width="8" height="8"
/></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><a
href="main_street.php">MAIN
STREET</a></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<!-- end #container --></div>
</body>
<!-- InstanceEnd --></html>
Sorry for all the confusion and not submitting this code to
you earlier on this forum. I really do appreciate your feedback and
assistance