ASP to PHP migration : PicasaWeb feed XSLT

I’ve been transferring most of my hosting away from 1&1 [previous blog article] and as part of that I am also moving from ASP hosting services to PHP. I have been using XSLT to transform a feed from PicasaWeb to create a simple interface to browse our family photos, and so needed to convert these ASP pages to PHP (the XSL will initially remain the same, though I should also really update the design)

The minor changes needed were as follows:

Querystring params: $_GET[‘field’] instead of request.querystring(‘field’)

Concatenating Strings: use ‘.’ instead of ‘+’

(PHP String Operators: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php )

XLST  Transformation code now [PHP]:

$xslDoc = new DOMDocument();

$xslDoc->load(“file.xsl”);

$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();

$xmlDoc->load(“source.xml”);

$proc = new XSLTProcessor();

$proc->importStylesheet($xslDoc);

echo $proc->transformToXML($xmlDoc);

XLST  Transformation code WAS [ASP]:

var mm_xsl = new MM_XSLTransform();

mm_xsl.setXML(source.xml”);

mm_xsl.setXSL(“file.xsl”);

Response.write (mm_xsl.Transform());

The temporary home of the migrated page is: http://allbs.co.uk/picasa/picasa.php