Coldfusion And Xml
May 28, 2008 - 7:19am
What you want to do is make
What you want to do is make use out of the cfxml tag. You can dynamically create xml documents within those tags, then output that xml to a string, then write that string to a file. You code might look something like this:
CODE
<CFXML variable="inputxml">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<parent>
<child></child>
<child></child>
</parent>
</root>
</cfxml>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<parent>
<child></child>
<child></child>
</parent>
</root>
</cfxml>
<!--- write the string out to a file.--->
<cffile action="write" file="\path\to\your\file.xml" output="#ToString(VARIABLES.INPUTDATA)#">
To make it dynamic, you can use conditions and/or loops within xml document itself. Off the top of my head, I think I would load whatever image paths their are into an array, then shuffle the array elements. Just a thought.
Hope this helps!
A friend of mine is trying to make a flash image rotator work on a website that runs on ColdFusion. The plan is to output the file as XML and the portion that lists the images would be dynamic in that they're different each page load or each week. Can anyone offer some suggestions? I have on idea that I haven't passed, but wanted to get actual CF developers input (since I'm a PHP guy).
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