Hi folks,
I have two questions.

I'm looking for a PHP script to convet a XML file to a HTML file on the fly. Do you know where I can find this?.

On the other hand, I create a PDF file using PHP. When the PDF is open on a new web browser, and after a delay of 1 minute, the PDF file must be delete from the server directory. I've try with this PHP instructions:

sleep(60);
unlink("$result"); -->where $result has the link to the pdf file.

but something is worng because I can open the file before delete it (of course). Any ideas.

Thank

...? Do you mean your PDF is not getting deleted, or is the problem that you can still read it after 1 minute? If the latter, this will be due to your browser caching the information (or you simply not refreshing).

Well, the file is delete after 60 secons. The problem is that when I am testing the script in my own PC, I can't see the delay on the screen. For example, if I do this:

<?
print("Something now . . . [".date("d/m/Y H:i:s", time())."]<br>");
sleep(5);
print(". . . and something 5 seconds later [".date("d/m/Y H:i:s", time())."]");

?>

I get this on the screen,

Something now . . . [22/08/2004 12:23:23]
. . . and something 5 seconds later [22/08/2004 12:23:28]

The result is on the sceen is obviously correct, but I get the two lines at the same time, so I do not appreciate any delay on the screen, like you can see in this web page.

http://demo.webignition.net/06/

Maybe the problem is that I have to run the code in a server different from my local PC. I don't know!!!

The same problem is described here

http://forums.devshed.com/showthread...d=1#post764573

Your webserver will wait until the PHP script has been executed before returning any results. So need to flush the output buffers if you want to display a bit of the page before it has finished executing.

To do this, just use the flush() function, so your code should look like this:

print("Something now . . . [".date("d/m/Y H:i:s", time())."]<br>");
flush();
sleep(5);
print(". . . and something 5 seconds later [".date("d/m/Y H:i:s", time())."]");

See more about it here: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.flush.php

I don't really understand your PDF problem, maybe that will help though.

As to the XML, start by reading this: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

Regards,
Joe.

Many thaks indeed, jOe