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bbw
01-25-2007, 11:29 AM
Wondering if someone can point me in the right direction.

Building a web page with a form on it that will access and search someone else's database for results. That someone else sent me certain information that would be necessary to access the xml feed, including the necessary login info etc. (I mean we have their permission and all that good stuff)

Since this other company has no documentation at all other than what they sent me, I need to know exactly how to build my form input fields to work with the xml info I've been given. I've never had to do this particular type of work with a form before and I'm completely new at working with xml as well.

What else would you all need to know to be get me started?
Thanking you all in advance!
bbw

EFELLER
01-30-2007, 07:23 PM
I need help with this exact same thing. Have you figured anything out?

bbw
01-30-2007, 07:54 PM
no not yet - I have had a couple of people on other forums tell me that I'm swimming upstream, and that the info I have IS in fact incomplete, and one guy sent a link for me just tonight:

http://fr3.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php

don't know if this will help or not - I'll get into it further tomorrow. In all reality though, it is looking more and more like this one will get turned over to someone with more in-depth knowledge of this stuff. But Good luck to you!!:cool:

bbw
02-02-2007, 02:54 PM
Ended up handing it over to one of our guys on staff who knew what to do with it all... apparently he has been somewhat succesful... He is in another location so I have not been able to corner him and see if he can give me a summary on what he did...
Good luck to you though!
bbw