Here are some code snippets to use the gorgeous X2V microformats XSLT files from Brian Suda with PHP 5 and libxslt (PHP 5 includes the XSL extension by default).
hCard to vCard:
To parse a XML or XHTML document, it has to be valid. To tidy the XML file, you can use a service from the W3C:
$xml_string_tidy = file_get_contents("http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/tidy?docAddr=".urlencode($uri));
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Then you have to create the HTML DOM…
@$document = new DOMDocument();
@$document->loadHTML($xml_string_tidy);
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and the XSLT DOM…
$stylesheet = new DOMDocument();
$stylesheet->load('hcard2vcard.xsl');
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Create a new XSLT Processor, load the Stylesheet…
$processor = new XsltProcessor();
$processor->importStylesheet($stylesheet);
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and run the transformation.
$result = $processor->transformToDoc($document);
$str = $result->saveXML();
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Now $str
contains the transformed code.
To send the vCard header with PHP, try
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=contact.vcf");
header("Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=UTF-8 name=contact.vcf");
echo $str;
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If you want to use the vCard extension .vcf instead of .php you have to add something like that to your .htaccess
file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^contact.vcf /hcard2vcard.php [L,QSA]
I hope it works 🙂
Is there any way to make this work with PHP 4? The intranet I’m working on only has PHP 4… Grr!
Yes, it also works with PHP 4, but its a bit more code. Brian Suda uses PHP 4 for his Online Service: http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/ perhaps you could write him a mail…
Thank you for this post. It has been so helpful to me:) Through following your code, I have made X2V work on static pages on my own server.
Q. By referring your own copy of Brian Suda’s X2V to a URI on your own server, will it look for an actual file with that name or will it ask the server to retrieve the document?
Hi!
I actually just asked Brian for his PHP-code (before I found this), and he gave me this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20090628123359/http://hg.microformats.org:80/x2v?cmd=manifest;manifest=3187422518eba12ad0c36c48b098439fea03b0dd;path=/;style=gitweb
So it’s available from an older revision in the repo.
cheers, Simon