PHP script FATAL ERROR !!!!

[Brad_Armitage]

Here is a snipit of code from my counter.php script:

<?php
$string = file_get_contents('txtfolder/statistics.xml'); 
$pos = strpos($string , $user_ip);
$dom = "txtfolder/statistics.xml";
$DomDocument = &domxml_open_file($dom);
$tags = $DomDocument->get_elements_by_tagname('visitors');
if (!in_array($user_ip, $banned)) {
    if(empty($tags)) 
        {
        } 
    else 
        {
        $ip_addresses = &$tags[0]; 
        $ip = $DomDocument->create_element('ip'); 
        $ip->set_attribute('address', $user_ip); 
        $ip->set_attribute('browser', $browser);
        refer($ip, $domain, $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
        $ip_addresses->append_child($ip); 
        $DomDocument->dump_file($dom, false, true);
        }
    }
}  
?>

Line 82:

$DomDocument = &domxml_open_file($dom); 

Line 83:

$tags = $DomDocument->get_elements_by_tagname('visitors'); 

Here is the error I am receiving when I load the page calling that script:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /export/home1/http/.users/a0/00/10/43/bradleya.ca/www/txtfolder/counter.php on line 83

The PHP version my webspace provider is using is 4.4. All the xml related libraries have been built in and the php.ini file is loading the module for domxml (php_domxml.dll). I haven't made any changes to my xml file, and here is a snipit of the code from it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<siteinfo>
	<visitors><ip address="12.34.56.78" browser="Other Browsers" referer="www.google.com"/></visitors>
</siteinfo>

I posted this issue before but I have more up to date information this time, and I'm hoping this time someone might have an idea what's causing this?

[NogDog]

Should line 82 be...

 $DomDocument =& new domxml_open_file($dom); 

...?

[Brad_Armitage]

I did that and this error came up:

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: domxml_open_file in /export/home1/http/.users/a0/00/10/43/bradleya.ca/www/txtfolder/counter.php on line 82

??

[NogDog]

Based on the sample on this page, how about trying this to replace lines 82-83?

if (!$DomDocument = domxml_open_file($dom)) {
  echo "Error while parsing the document\n";
  exit;
}
$tags = $DomDocument->get_elements_by_tagname('visitors'); 

I'm sort of stumbling in new territory for me here, just hoping maybe I can throw a dart that happens to find a solution (and maybe learn a little something while I'm doing it).

[Stephen Philbin]

Well in PHP5 it'd be

$DomDocument = new domDocument();
$DomDocument->load($dom); 

Does that work by any chance?

[Brad_Armitage]

Thanks for the reply guys

NogDog: It did echo that phrase, so what does that mean? There's an error with line 82 as well??

Stephen Philbin: My webspace provider is using 4.4 so I figured it woudln't work and this is what it returned -

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: load() in /export/home1/http/.users/a0/00/10/43/bradleya.ca/www/txtfolder/counter.php on line 83

[NogDog]

Try using a full pathname for the file, perhaps something like:

$dom = realpath("txtfolder/statistics.xml");
if(empty($dom))
{
  die("Uh-oh! Bad file name, perhaps?");
} 

[Brad_Armitage]

$dom = realpath("txtfolder/statistics.xml");

NogDog you're a genius LOL it was "realpath" I was missing, I KNEW it wasn't those lines, I read everything I could on domxml and I was so lost
Thanks again!

[NogDog]

Not so sure it's genius as much as it's stubbornness.