is there any reason why you suggest qa.php.net instead of http://www.php.net for the download of latest php? how is that different?

Abraham, no there is no reason. I get my updates from the QA website because it usually always has the latest quality assured download from the PHP work group. You can get the same from http://php.net as well (which most often links to QA website anyway).

Rob, glad to hear it! Have fun.

Jane, appearing and disappearing is alright as long as the server has started (not sure how you have set it up on your machine).

If your server has not started (i.e., http://localhost doesn’t work) then please check your “error.log” file for why Apache cannot start. This file can be found in “APACHE FOLDER / logs / error.log”.

Let me know.

Hi, what is the path to your Apache? Are you running PHP as cgi or as a module?

In general, the error you mention is the most common. It means php_xslt is not found. Are you sure you followed step 4 above (copying this to your system32 folder)?

If that doesnt solve it, I would recommend reinstalling your PHP.

(1) Delete your entire PHP directory.
(2) Delete *ALL* occurences of DLLs lying around in system and system32 folder.
(3) Start from step 1 here.

I know this is painful, but if you follow all the steps, it really should work. Let me know how it goes.

Put this into your ‘httpd.conf’:

LoadFile dll/sablot.dll

Where ‘dll’ represents the folder where this dll is put. (This is for Apache2 and dll is a folder in ServerRoot)

Hi lee, yes both work. Here is what I did:

1. Got the latest Sablotron (http://download-2.gingerall.cz/download/sablot/Sablot-Win-0.98.zip )
and grabbed only the sablot.dll from the package; then, copied it into c:\windows\system32 folder (cheerfully overwriting existing sablot.dll).

2. Then, grabbed the latest expat_win32bin from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10127&release_id=136025 and ‘installed’ it (it’s an exe). From the installation folder, grabbed the expat.dll and libexpat.dll and copied them into system32 as well. (PS - libexpat.dll is not new).

3. Restarted Apache. Tried sample XSLT code. Works.

Does this help?

Shashank???? I grabbed the latest expat_win32bin from ttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10127&release_id=136025. BUT I see no expat.dll. I only see libexpat.dll.

am still getting same error

Still not working…xslt not enabled:(
php.ini is in system32 folder

i downloaded “expat_win32bin_1_95_6.exe” from sourcefoge as you did Shashank.
NO expat.dll
just these two: libexpat.dll and libexpatw.dll
——
i have expat.dll but it is the one that came with “php-4.3.2-Win32″ download

*******httpd.conf*****(located in c:/apache/apache2/conf)
…
LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll
…
ScriptAlias /php/ “c:/php/”
…
AllowOverride All
…
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php
…
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4
AddType application/x-tar .tgz
AddType image/x-icon .ico
…
========================
*******php.ini******(located in system32)
…
extension=php_iconv.dll
…
extension=php_xslt.dll

HELLLLPPPP…..
again thanks

ME again - no success yet
I put all my info in an area you can look at.
I have the steps i did, plus what files and from where I got them…
(http://pub227.ezboard.com/fanela14638frm2) So please go look at what I did…maybe you can see where I am going wrong.

HERE IS MY PHP PAGE INFO: http://anela.com/temp/myphpinfo.html

Okey this is my problem:

OS: Windows XP Prof.
Two drives:
- C

Nice example, other good examples I have found good are an zvon.org which have an example based references guides to xslt.

To eliminate the config.php file use
the xslt_set_base function. (I removed most of the comment so this takes up less space)

$xml_file = “simple.xml”;
$xsl_file = “simple.xsl”;

$xh = xslt_create();

// set the base to the current working directory.
$fileBase = ‘file://’ . getcwd () . ‘/’;
xslt_set_base ( $xh, $fileBase );

// Process the document
$result = xslt_process($xh, $xml_file, $xsl_file);
if (!$result)
{
echo ‘XSLT processing error: ‘ .xslt_error($xh) ;
}
else
{
echo $result;
}
xslt_free($xh);

?>

add this to the complex.xsl to display the actual picture from amazon.com

<xsl:template match=”picture”>
<img>
<xsl:attribute name=”src”><xsl:value-of select=”.”/></xsl:attribute>
</img>
</xsl:template>

update/modify the local-name(.)=’url’ to to below to display an actual clickable link and not just text.

<xsl:when test=”local-name(.)=’url’”>
<b>More info from this link: </b>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name=”href”><xsl:value-of select=”.”/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>
</a>
</xsl:when>

modify/update <xsl:value-of select=”.”/> to remove the text when the URL tag is parsed.

<xsl:if test=”local-name(.) != ‘url’”>
<xsl:value-of select=”.”/>
<br/>
</xsl:if>

And there you have it, probaraly what the original author was trying to achieve and this prove that it was a very good example/article.

Nice job indeed.

so for those who are not quite clear you need to use the xsl:attribute tag for normal html element attributes, src, href, height, width, border.. etc etc

<img src=”my.img” height=”40″> becomes:

<img><xsl:attribute name=”src”><xsl:value-of select=”.”/></xsl:attribute><xsl:attribute name=” height”>40</xsl:attribute></img>

and so on. bte sorry for taking up so much space but I thought this might be useful for some people.

hi,..
i’ve had trouble on installing xslt into my machine,

what i’ve done :
- put all .dll files into C:\windows\system32\ folder,
(expat.dll, libexpat.dll, sablot.dll, xmlparse.dll, xmltok.dll)
- uncomment xslt and sablot on my php.ini files
extension=php_sablot.dll
extension=php_xslt.dll
- last,.. restarting my computer,..

then, I start apache, and test some xsl code,
but, there’s nothing happen, my browser just stuck up and showed “loading document”, but it never finished,..

please, help..

i use PHPTriad 2.1.1 on windows ‘98, and using default setting, apache-instal folder : C:\apache\ php-instal folder : C:\apache\php
php.ini files : C:\apache\php\php.ini
extensions files : C:\apache\php\extension\

–

Hi, i installed sablotron correctly, but i have another kind of problem. If i change the “documentroot” of the Apache, Sablotron seems not to work. I use this code:

$xh = xslt_create();
$result = xslt_process($xh, ‘arg:/_xml’, ‘Apache-Server/…/filename.xsl’);

but i get this error code:
Warning: Sablotron error on line none: cannot open file ‘c:/programs/apache group/apache/Apache-Server/…/filename.xsl’ …

Obviously “c:/programs/apache group/apache” is the apache installation directory.
bye and thanks.

I’ve installed Apache 1.3.24(CGI) + Php 4.1.2 + MySQL 3.0 running on Win 98 and work well. I’ve installed also Expat 1.95.6 and I downloaded Sablotron 0.90 to parsing Xml documents on Php, but my question is : how I install the binaries of Sablotron ? Please, could you help me ?

hi,
thanks for the info, it was very useful!

mailman

Hi,

I’m trying to process an XSLT stylesheet using the xslt_process() function and relative URLs to the .xsl files. Like so:

$strHTML = xslt_process($xh, ‘arg:/_xml’, ‘xsl/test.xsl’, NULL, $arguments);

with the script in “C:/localhost/content/” and the xsl file in “C:/localhost/content/xsl/”

It’s pretty basic. But…

… it’s not working and xsl_error() tells me:

“cannot open file ‘C:/PHP/xsl/test.xsl’”

…but why are you looking for it there Mr. Sablotron?!

Any help much appreciated! (I think that Giacomo is having the same problem)

You can specify any file path with PHP code for XSLT using the “xslt_set_base” function. Did you try out the code samples? There is code like this –

$fileBase = ‘file://’ . getcwd () . ‘/’;
xslt_set_base ( $xh, $fileBase );

You can change your $fileBase variable to any path you want, as long as it is local (IIRC).

while running apache after installing php as a module its giving this error

Cannor locate API module structure php_module in file c:\apache\moudle\php\sapi\phpapache.dll..cified procedure could not be found..
I’ve followed the PHP installation and configuration Steps properly………I’m running apache 1. and Php 4.3.3

Please help

I am tring to setup xslt for php on my apache web server having followed your instructions I still get the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xslt_create() in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\xsltest\simple.php on line 8

Any suggestions as to what might be wrong with my configuration, php in general is working(phpinfo.php works fine)

Thank you,
E. Brown

Can you share the code you used to strip today’s Dilbert comic off the Dilbert site and place on the SnipTools website?)

Very Cool!

Thanks very much.

Thanks merlynda. The code for Dilbert is at:
http://sniptools.com/vault/000001.htm

I should have read Paul Edwards’s comments before embarking on the same darn thing over again
I couldnt’ start apache with the declaration in the php.ini file to load the xslt extension: it kept saying that the file didn’t exist. Following the instructions provided exactly fixed it for me though.

Cheers
Adrian.

A well laid out site with decent and up-to-date information, well done. Great site layout too! Any tips for myself, I wish to start with PHP and integrate MYSQL into some sort of Web-Data base application.

I have a well running php/apache system. I did not use the qa.php.net for installing. I am using the XAMPP thing, whatever that means. But so far so good.

Now, I wanted to do some xml/xslt work. Mainly the sablot extension, so I write one file and it failed. “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xslt_run() in C:\xampp\htdocs\nku\xmltest1.php on line 11
”

Now above the XSLT_RUN command, the XSLT_create() line didnt fail. Should it have ??? Anyway, any ideas why this is happening ??

Based on the talk here, I think my PHP is a module. And all my dlls are in the XAMPP directory. I dont want to move DLLs around, since everything else works. The extension line is uncommented in the INI file also. What else can go wrong ???

Hello There.

I found this page very useful. However, after much struggling I still seem to have a problem.

I am running Win XP home, PHP 4.3.3
and I still get the following error:
Call to undefined function: xslt_process().. you know the rest. I have double and triple checked and I think I did everything correctly.

However, I downloaded Depency Walker, which I found a handy tool, it sniffed out a missing dll, and I was able to fix that. I do however, get a

‘ Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module.’ in dependency walker.

the corresponding dll is : MPR.dll, I tried downloading it and got it from another machine, but I still get the same error. So I was wondering if someone could send it to me, so that I can check whether that will solve my problem. Since I will know there is nothing wrong with the dll. [I am not that clued up with this side of things] The other issue as per usual is, could it just be Win XP home giving me problems?

I would appreciate any and all help, comments or ideas in this regard

Cheerio
Jacqueline
j_fouche@emailfast.com

Anyone make this work with IIS?

I get NOTHING from the scripts… latest PHP download, latest sablot.dll, libexpat.dll, iconv.dll all in system32 directory. php_xslt.dll in system32 directory and uncommented in php.ini…

I also don’t get any XSLT module from phpinfo().

Does PHP need to be run as a module for these to work?

Hi,

I followed every step of your tutorial, but I still can’t seem to parse xml through php.
I use this php file:

It displays my error message that I typed in, because xslt_error() doesn’t work (displays nothing).
Any ideas?

Hi,

I had the same problem with installing the XSLT. I’m on Windows 98, IIS 4, and the php 4.3. John, I had the same problem as you, until I copied the files to the *c:\windows\system* folder, not system32. Then to my great surprise, it worked. (after easilly 4 hours of trying different stuff)

I got this hint from reading the ldap entry at PHP (I believe the mailing lists) where the same problem is described.

Just for information, I believe that pop up window is from php not handling the exception message that Windows is sending, and as a result is just popping the error up to a window. That ‘device is not functioning’ message is a system defined error.

Hi,
to those installing on XP + W2K3 like I did this is a simple process using PHP 4.3.4.4 Apache 2.48 configured with JRun
on Windows 2003 Server Enterprise and Windows XP Pro. The XML samples work fine
even without sablot in the system32 folder, not sure if I need sablot cause the transformation
works fine without it. Sablot is also not located in the extensions folder.
—
copy all dlls from EXTENSIONS folder to the windows\system32 folder
copy all dlls from DLLS folder to the windows\system folder
copy the php4ts.dll to the windows\system32 folder (this must be done)
—
php.ini
;extension_dir = (nothing here)
to extension_dir = “C:\php\extensions”
—
http.conf
LoadModule php4_module C:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll

No need to re-start the system, just the webserver. Why copy the extensions files to
the system32 folder? I have recognised that the webserver has had trouble finding the dlls
when I just referenced the extensions folder, so I tried it like this and it worked fine.

cheers

Thanks JKue, very useful info!

Copying the current libexpat.dll to the sys dir did the trick for me. It wasn’t quite obvious when I read the tutorial, but now it happily functions.

lampuki

Hi Jane,

Did you try the code sample included on this page? That should give you some ideas.

Anyway, as regards your own code, the snippet you mention in your note above only contains a reference to an XML file, so it is difficult to tell which entity you are talking about. Would it be possible for you to provide your XML plus the XSLT file?

If you feel it is not a good idea to do that online, please feel free to email me personally, and I’ll see if I can be of some help.

Cheers.

Just say BINGO!!!
THANKS!!
Work fine.. i’ve pass more then 3hours to find out why it’s does’nt work…. your procedure was perfect… thanks!

How do you do this with PHP 5 ? I get continuously the same error !

Greetings,
I have installed Apache/2.0.49(Win32) and PHP4 on my machine (Windows XP) following your instruction. Though it seems that it is working, but when I try http://localhost/phpinfo.php it gives the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: info() in C:\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\phpinfo.php on line 1

Could you tell me what’s wrong.
Thnaks, drhsd

DrHSD, the first error of course is because you had “info()” in your program, it should be “phpinfo()”. The second error is because you have not installed the XSLT module properly. Please follow the instructions on the top of the page, word by word. It has to work, it’s worked for tons of people with Windows and PHP4.1xx and above. If it doesn’t, then write to me again with your OS, Apache version, and PHP version. -Shanx

hi!
i have an Error message:
cannot load module php_xslt.dll …
In fact the file don’t exists
in the extension line on php.ini and in dir extensions
i use php5 rc1 on win 2k and apache 1.3.24
there is a file php_xsl.dll works equal
or not?
bye mirko

Dmitry, the problem you mentioned has nothing to with XSLT or Sablotron, it is more an issue of capturing “Request” variables from GET or POST form posts. Please keep questions on topic.

in my php version 5 rc1 there isn’t the file php_xslt.dll and in the php.ini file there isn’t a line with this value.
how do i do?
tnx and sorry for my english!
i don’t speak it very well
bye mirko

I have followed all your instructions and the problem that I am getting is whenever I try to get the test.php run it gives me just back the code but not the info about the php.I will really appreciate if you can tell me what extra I have to do to make it work..as my apache server is running well. I am using Xp-home.

Thanks mate - filling gaps where others can’t…. worked a charm straight away…. beautifully done!

Hi ahlimosa, what version of PHP? What version of Apache? This does not seem to be a problem with Sablotron, but with Apache and PHP themselves, and is hence not relevant to this discussion, but will be happy to help if I can.

Ahlimosa, your php installation is not correct. Where is your PHP.INI file located? How have you installed PHP on Apache? Have you used any installation application? Did you have PHP installed earlier as CGI, before installing now as a module?

I know this is a PHP4 tutorial but for those interested in knowing about this in PHP5, here is a tip. In the php.ini file remove the comment:
;extension=php_xsl.dll -> extension=php_xsl.dll

Remember your extensions folder!
;extension_dir = “c:\php\extensions” -> extension_dir = “c:\php\extensions”
Now go here get a sample of transformations in PHP5(not much difference to the one here): http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xsl.php

*NIX/linux PHP 5 includes the XSL extension by default and can be enabled by adding the argument –with-xsl[=DIR] to your configure line. DIR is the libxslt installation directory, when installing manually. I installed this on FreeBSD5.2.1-RELEASE using port and mod_php5 and Windows XP/2003.

Ahlimosa it seems to me, that you have two php versions installed, Why? I use this version also on XP/2003 Server mine:Apache/2.0.50 (Win32) mod_perl/1.99_15-dev Perl/v5.8.4 PHP/5.0.1 mod_ssl/2.0.50 OpenSSL/0.9.7d, I placed PHP in it’s own folder like C:\php (so I can update without reinstalling the whole thing).

Hope this helps.

Pete, no, I recommend moving on to PHP5 if possible. Have you tried the same instructions?

tito this does function on XP, Apache2 with PHP5.0.1. All you need to actually do is uncomment:
;extension=php_xsl.dll -> extension=php_xsl.dll
use the samples from Shanx or here(http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xsl.php)And you’re good to go, it may also help to restart the service(Apache2), then it should work(I use it).

Sablotron error on line 289:’XML parser error 4: not
well-formed (invalid token)’.

Hi,

both PHP code examples work on my local machine,
however how could one process an XML file of the following format with XSLT and PHP ?

XML file (example)
http :// http://www.domain.com / xml.asp?id=12&row=45

Thanks

Hey I just like to thank you for this great resource it has helped me no end to resolve the issues I was having to get Sablotron working on my system. Special thanks to JKue comments 60 and 61.

Cheers Mike

Concerning placing dlls in your system32 folder.

I had a problem with apache not finding my modules while they were at the exact location as specified. Problem solved as I put php5ts.dll in the system32 folder. Turns out the other dlls need this one and it needs to be in the system path. I Suppose if you put the dir where php5ts.dll originally is in the path it will also work.

Thanks you for the procedure to overcome my problem, but still i need some tips to generate a powerful index. because i use xslt and xml for this document.

When you begin desperately copying files into C:\WINDOWS\system32 .. and still not seeing any results try to begin with iconv.dll !
Normally you should NOT copy php4ts.dll, that should reside in the default php installation folder.

how to enable sablotron XSLT on your TSW server
You don’t need to download anything. TSW has everything you need, it just needs a little tweaking
I copied essential files from the php folder to windows\system32

sablot.dll
expat.dll
php4ts.dll
php_xslt.dll

checked first if php was being loaded as a module on the apache.conf there should be an entry like this:

LoadModule php4_module

checked also on \\localhost\php.info to see if everything was allright. There you should see this line:

PHP Version 4.3.8

Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:/TSW/Apache2/conf/php.ini

———————————–

Now that you know where php.ini resides, go and remove this comments in it:

OLD LINE –> ;extension=php_xslt.dll
NEW LINE –> extension=php_xslt.dll

did the same for php_iconv.dll (though i don’t think its mandatory)

-Under PATHS AND DIRECTORIES, ADDED this path lines:

include_path = “.;C:\TSW\Apache2\php\”
include_path = “.;C:\WINDOWS\system32\”

Though i dont think it was necessary (heck! I dont even know if its really necessary to copy the .dll files to sys32!!).
Its working now, and thats what matters… for now
———————————————–

Then finally my last and decisive step was editing php_handler.conf located in C:\TSW\Apache2\conf\mods, uncommenting the following:

PHPINIDir conf/php.ini

LoadFile dll/sablot.dll
LoadFile dll/libintl-1.dll
LoadFile dll/gds32.dll
LoadFile dll/libmhash.dll
LoadFile php/pdflib.dll

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .info
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

——

In the end your php.ini output should have this extra fields:

xml
XML Support active
XML Namespace Support active
EXPAT Version 1.95.6

xslt
XSLT support enabled
Backend Sablotron
Sablotron Version 1.0

Ready to rock!?? I am…

my question is if it is posible to run xslt on XAMPP and how to do that?
Thank You.

I was just wondering, as I’m new to XSLT, can a person use it without an xsl stylesheet? - I have an existing stylesheet I’d like to use - a css, is there either a way to refference that instead, or to convert my css to xsl?

I’ve neen trying to do everything according to
the instructions above->Windows xp, Apache2,
php 4.3.10.But XSLT had not been added to the php info page and the code for running a test didn’t work.
Also according to some instructions in the php
homepage I’ve moved php.ini to the php folder
(c:/php/) and changed the extension_dir to
c:/php/extensions/ (removing the dll’s from the SYSTEM32 folder)
and moved the’;’ from extension=php_xslt.dll
things are not working !
Any suggestion ?

Hi there

I have configured PHP Version 5.0.4 on windows. Everything seems to work fine except
$xh = xslt_create();

Fatal error: Call to undefined function xslt_create().

In your tutorial you have suggested
“open your PHP.INI and uncomment the php_xslt.dll extension”

But i dont have any such line, instead i have php_xsl.dll, which i uncommented but no success.

Kindly suggest for this new verion of PHP.

Regards

Jkue, thanks for the contribution, I believe your code was caught up in our correction facility. Please mail me the code at shanx at sniptools dot com and I’ll put it up here. Cheers!

hello,
When I am writting in httpd.conf the load module and restart apache2 server it appears a warning
can not load c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll to the server
regards

There is no XSLT Support in PHP5, you have to use DOM instead, or downgrade to PHP4

I’ve installed Apache2, PHP and MySQL under WinXP. I’m running an XSLT transformation from a small PHP file and PHP won’t resolve the urls of the files involved correctly. I put “xml_file.xml” and “xsl_file.xsl” in the script for XSLT to work with, and the script tries to resolve the file URLs as c:\PHP\xml_file.xml, etc. even though the html pages correctly resolve partial urls to the htdocs dir under Apache. I think this is the problem with the XSL transformation coming up with the generic “invalid token”. Am I missing something in the PHP.ini that’s causing the error in resolving the urls? Any ideas would be very helpful!

hi, thanks a lot, after 2 days of searching this was the only ! working method

Anu, I guess you meant PHP4, not Apache4. That’s the most common error people see when they have not followed install instructions that come with PHP.

I’m using PHP Version 4.4.2 with IIS using ISAPI.

I got it all working in my windows xp machine but i copy it to my w2003 machine(s) , the xslt wont appear at all in the phpinfo!!!
xslt:
XSLT support enabled
Backend Sablotron
Sablotron Version 1.0

Also for some reason the Configuration File (php.ini) Path is C:\WINDOWS\php.ini inststead of C:\WINDOWS\system32\php.ini as it was in xp ?!?!

It’s reading the ini (now i put it c:\windows instead) because i’ve changed the highlight.bg as a test.. whenever i change it in the ini and restart iis this updates but the xslt just wont include.. im not sure why as all the settings are the same. [this was after failing to get it to work in either with php5 so scrapping that all and going back to 4 beause the app my client uses needs it] with that darned “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xslt_create()” which i only worked out was an incompatibility issue with php 5 prob by coming here.. so cheers for getting me this far!!!

I’ve even tried having the copying the php4ts.dll in sys32 and windows to hedge my bets to no avail.

Hello, I’m a developer with a managed server so I don’t know much about servers. We have a trade show coming up and need to run our site off of a laptop and your tutorial on setting up xslt/sablotron for windows saved me. Thanks,
Ryan

Hello,
I have a problem, I can’t configure my PHP 4.4 under Apache 2.2 with exsl suport. Can you help me?
In phe.ini I have xsl, domxml support, but no exsl support.

Thank you

I am just posting what my fix to this mess was. I am using XP SP2, apache 2, and php > 4.2.

I was unable to get phpinfo() to show any proof that the xslt extension was working. I noticed that the php.ini location at the top just said C:\Windows\ and nothing else. So, I looked in my apache config and noticed that my PHPIniDir was pointing to /php, so to fix it, I changed it to C:/apache/php/php.ini And, like magic, it worked.