[Fez-users] Fez "misc" API problem.

[Patel, A. <Aman.Patel@STJUDE.ORG>]

Hello everyone,

I've just installed Fez. It all worked fine... Until we tried to create
a community.

When I tried to create a community, a bunch of PHP errors showed all
indicating that the loadXML function had failed at line 605 of
include/class.fedora.api.php:


			<snip>
			$filename =3D
APP_FEDORA_GET_URL."/".$pid."/".$dsID;
			$xml =3D Misc::processURL($filename);
			if ($getxml) {
				return $xml;
			}
			if (!empty($xml) && $xml !=3D false) {
->				$doc =3D DOMDocument::loadXML($xml);
				$xpath =3D new DOMXPath($doc);
				$fieldNodeList =3D $xpath->query("/*/*");
				foreach ($fieldNodeList as $fieldNode) {
=09
$resultlist[$fieldNode->nodeName][] =3D trim($fieldNode->nodeValue);
			<snip>

After prilimnary search. I found that the processURL function was
getting a error page instead of a XML result. I checked by visiting
$filename (url) myself, and fedora asked me for a username/password,
which was expected.

Then I checked the code for processURL. It basically used CURL to fetch
the $filename url and return its content. But since fedora required the
HTTP basic auth, it obviously failed with the "authorization" failed
html message, instead of the xml output.

So I changed processURL somewhat (to add the http basic auth). See code
below:

	function processURL($url) {
	   if (empty($url)) { return ""; }
	   $url=3Dstr_replace('&amp;','&',$url);
	   $ch=3Dcurl_init();
	   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
->	   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD,
APP_FEDORA_USERNAME.":".APP_FEDORA_PWD);
->	   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);

	   $data =3D curl_exec ($ch);
	   curl_close ($ch);
	   return $data; =20
	}

Just added those two lines as indicated.

After I did this, it all worked! I was able to create a community and
all was fine.

My question to you is this: Is this code change normal? I obviously have
no idea in the grand scheme of things how this will affect the rest of
the code. I'd appreciate any insight!

Thanks a lot!

- Aman Patel, Sys Admin / Database / Web Developer, International
Outreach x4076=20