Topic: Juicebox won't read config.xml generated by PHP simpleXML [SOLVED]
Hi, I'm using the PHP simpleXML facility (http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php) to generate the config.xml dynamically from content I'm retrieving from a DB.
Everything works fine except for the fact that the XML that's generated by simpleXML self-closes the first juiceboxgallery node like this
<juiceboxgallery/> If I remove the trailing slash like so
<juiceboxgallery> then Juicebox is happy (although the XML becomes invalid then as there's no closing node).
I've tried removing the trailing '/' from the $xmlRoot variable in PHP using regex and trim but simpleXML just errors. So, my question is, is there any facility / configuration in Juicebox itself to handle the self-closing XML parent node? If not, it looks like I'll have to do something nasty like do a search/replace on the generated config.xml file.
Thanks for any help.
Nick
Here's an example output of my PHP:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<juiceboxgallery/>
<image imageURL="../images/portraits/monkey2-monkey2.jpg" thumbURL="../images/portraits/thumbs/monkey2-monkey2.jpg" linkURL="#" linkTarget="_blank">
<title> </title>
<caption>sdfasd- ljsadf </caption>
<about>32423fwefas</about>
<text>asfd3423 - lkj aslkj </text>
<copyrightYear>2234</copyrightYear>
<locationCreated>asdf</locationCreated>
<sourceOrganisation>asf</sourceOrganisation>
</image>And, here's the code to generate it (NB, you'll see there're a few other nodes - not used by Juicebox (I'm using them to generate jsonLD within the page so pls ignore those - they're not the cause of the problem):
<?php
session_start();
$domtree = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
// create a DOM document with UTF-8 encoding
require_once "connect.php";
$sql_All = "SELECT Filenames.filename, Galleries.gallery, Captions.caption, TextContents.textContent, AboutContents.aboutContent, CopyrightDates.copyrightDate, Locations.location, SourceOrganisations.sourceOrganisation, SortOrder.sortOrderID FROM ((((((((
Filenames
INNER JOIN Galleries ON Filenames.filenameID_pk = Galleries.filenameID_fk)
INNER JOIN Captions ON Filenames.filenameID_pk = Captions.filenameID_fk)
INNER JOIN TextContents ON Filenames.filenameID_pk = TextContents.filenameID_fk)
INNER JOIN AboutContents ON Filenames.filenameID_pk = AboutContents.filenameID_fk)
INNER JOIN CopyrightDates ON Filenames.filenameID_pk = CopyrightDates.filenameID_fk)
INNER JOIN Locations ON Filenames.filenameID_pk = Locations.filenameID_fk)
INNER JOIN SourceOrganisations ON Filenames.filenameID_pk = SourceOrganisations.filenameID_fk)
INNER JOIN SortOrder ON Filenames.filenameID_pk = SortOrder.sortOrderID) ORDER BY SortOrder.sortOrder_pk";
// get gallery folder name from the session and create path for main folder
$pathMainImage = "../images/" . $_SESSION['nameOfFolder'] . "/";
//echo "this is the path: " . $pathMainImage;
// get gallery folder name from the session and create path for the thumbnail folder
$pathThumbImage = "../images/" . $_SESSION['nameOfFolder'] . "/thumbs/";
//echo "this is the path: " . $pathThumbImage;
// create the root element of the xml tree
$xmlRoot = $domtree->createElement("juiceboxgallery");
// append it to the document created
$xmlRoot = $domtree->appendChild($xmlRoot);
foreach ($result=$conn->query($sql_All) as $row)
{
// build image node with the various attributes needed for juicebox
$image = $domtree->createElement("image");
$image = $domtree->appendChild($image);
$imageURL = $domtree->createAttribute("imageURL");
$imageURL->value = $pathMainImage.$row['filename'];
$image->appendChild($imageURL);
$thumbURL = $domtree->createAttribute("thumbURL");
$thumbURL->value = $pathThumbImage.$row['filename'];
$image->appendChild($thumbURL);
$linkURL = $domtree->createAttribute("linkURL");
$linkURL->value = "#";
$image->appendChild($linkURL);
$linkTarget = $domtree->createAttribute("linkTarget");
$linkTarget->value = "_blank";
$image->appendChild($linkTarget);
$image->appendChild($domtree->createElement('title',' '));
$image->appendChild($domtree->createElement('caption', $row['caption']));
$image->appendChild($domtree->createElement('about', $row['aboutContent']));
$image->appendChild($domtree->createElement('text', $row['textContent']));
$image->appendChild($domtree->createElement('copyrightYear', $row['copyrightDate']));
$image->appendChild($domtree->createElement('locationCreated', $row['location']));
$image->appendChild($domtree->createElement('sourceOrganisation', $row['sourceOrganisation']));
}
// retrieve the name of the gallery folder from the session to configure where the config.xml file gets saved and print / save the XML file
$domtree->formatOutput = TRUE;
print $domtree->saveXML();
$domtree->save("../dropzone/" . $_SESSION['nameOfFolder'] .'/config.xml');
?>