https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: entry point within code to trigger a xml generation script en Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:04:21 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/entry-point-within-code-to-trigger-a-xml-generation-script#post-22485 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:51:27 +0000 RonSwanson 22485@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I searched everywhere for a few days without much luck!</p> <p>I'm trying to do something similar - write an xml file and store it locally on the server.</p> <p>I can't work out how to access the fields contained in $entry_details...</p> <p>For example, I created a basic form with a single text field entry ('element_1' in the SQL database entry). I want to write the string value to my xml file, so in mf_send_notification(), after the call to mf_get_entry_details(), I am doing the following:</p> <p>$xml_filename = utf8_encode("XMLFile_{$entry_id}");<br /> $file = fopen($xml_filename,"w");<br /> echo fwrite($file,"TEST");<br /> echo fwrite($file,"{$entry_details['element_1']}");</p> <p>But the output file only contains "TEST"?</p> <p>Sorry, my php/sql skills are pretty limited... Any help would be much appreciated, thanks! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/entry-point-within-code-to-trigger-a-xml-generation-script#post-18715 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:24:47 +0000 yuniar 18715@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>It should be inside "includes/helper-functions.php" file. Around line 240, you'll find a function with the name "mf_send_notification".<br /> You can put your code into that function.</p> <p>All the data is already available within <code>$entry_details</code> array. So you can simply loop through that to get the data. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/entry-point-within-code-to-trigger-a-xml-generation-script#post-18711 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:22:38 +0000 radixbv 18711@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Can you provide a pointer to the code where we could insert a xml generation script</p> <p>A customer of us uses a lot of forms.<br /> In the past the made there own php script to process all the forms.<br /> As forms getting more and more complicated, if recommended to have a look at machform.</p> <p>The only obstacle is that the now generate as email with a xml output of the form data as a attachment.<br /> That can be processed by the application that they use.</p> <p>An mysql script that generate a xml file for a certain entry is easy.</p> <p>S i was thinking to add this to the code at a certain point: Just before the email is generated. Also a point where there is access tot the record fields.</p> <p>Can you give me a pointer. </p>