# Problem saving xml to server

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-saving-xml-to-server/328922
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 3, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-saving-xml-to-server/328922 "2012-07-03T06:39:55Z")
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### Author: ![ronmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@ronmac](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ronmac)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-saving-xml-to-server/328922/1 "2012-07-03T06:39:55Z")

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I’m having a small problem here. I am running a localhost Apache PHP server. What I am trying to do is load an xml file, modify it, and send it back to the server with PHP.

I am able to load the xml file and modify it but when I save back to the server the xml file is empty or null.

Here is the as code:

var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();  
myLoader.load(new URLRequest(‘test.xml’));

function processXML(event:Event):void {  
myXML=new XML(myLoader.data);  
}

var xmlcontents:String=myXML;  
var foldername:String=“testfolder”;  
var filename:String=“test.xml”;  
var dataPass:URLVariables = new URLVariables();  
var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

var previewRequest:URLRequest=new URLRequest(“[http://localhost/jd/saving-xml.php](http://localhost/jd/saving-xml.php)”);  
previewRequest.method=URLRequestMethod.POST;  
dataPass.filename=filename;  
dataPass.xmlcontents=xmlcontents;  
dataPass.foldername=foldername;  
previewRequest.data=dataPass;  
urlLoader.load(previewRequest);

When I do this in the as code it works fine:

var myXML:XML=  
\<people\>  
\<item\>  
\<name\>George\</name\>  
\</item\>  
\<item\>  
\<name\>Bill\</name\>  
\</item\>  
\<item\>  
\<name\>Henry\</name\>  
\</item\>  
\</people\>;

It’s only when I load the xml document externally I am getting a blank xml document when I save the xml back to the server.

The PHP code )I think this part is fine):

\<?php  
// POST variable  
$fileName = $\_POST[“filename”];

```
// POST variable
$xmlContents = $_POST["xmlcontents"];

// backslashes from xml string (skip this for plain text)
$lastBackslashPos = strpos ($xmlContents, "\\");
while($lastBackslashPos &gt;0){
   $xmlContents = substr($xmlContents,0,$lastBackslashPos)
	  .substr($xmlContents,$lastBackslashPos+1,strlen($xmlContents));
   $lastBackslashPos = strpos ($xmlContents, "\\");
}

// POST foldername
$foldername = $_POST["foldername"];

// test if the folder name is existing in the server (skip this if you want to test in server path)
if(!is_dir($foldername . "/")) {
	mkdir($foldername . "/", 0755);
}

// write xml data to file on server relatively to server path of the this PHP file
$fh = fopen($foldername . "/" . $fileName, "w");
fwrite($fh, $xmlContents);
fclose($fh);

```

?\>

Thanks in advance.