I am following this tutorial for adding markers to certain addresses from my DB2 database onto the google maps: https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/phpsqlajax_v3 I am at the part where I try to create an XML document from my DB2 database and am getting a little confused. This is the code that google wrote for iterating through the rows and creating an XML document out of it:
// Iterate through the rows, adding XML nodes for each
while ($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
// ADD TO XML DOCUMENT NODE
$node = $dom->createElement("marker");
$newnode = $parnode->appendChild($node);
$newnode->setAttribute("name",$row['name']);
$newnode->setAttribute("address", $row['address']);
$newnode->setAttribute("lat", $row['lat']);
$newnode->setAttribute("lng", $row['lng']);
$newnode->setAttribute("type", $row['type']);
}
What would be an equivalent way of doing so in DB2 using PHP?
You will need to use a corresponding PHP DB2 API which may involve enabling the extension in the php ini file and possibly installing a DB2 ODBC driver:
Below is a working example using PDO Driver method with try/catch on the connection. Alternatively, you can use a DSN (see manuals above):
# Opening db connection
try {
$conn = db2_connect($database, $user, $password);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM tablename";
$stmt = db2_prepare($conn, $sql);
$result = db2_execute($stmt);
}
catch(PDOException $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
exit;
}
while($row = db2_fetch_assoc($stmt)) {
// ADD TO XML DOCUMENT NODE
$node = $dom->createElement("marker");
$newnode = $parnode->appendChild($node);
$newnode->setAttribute("name",$row['name']);
$newnode->setAttribute("address", $row['address']);
$newnode->setAttribute("lat", $row['lat']);
$newnode->setAttribute("lng", $row['lng']);
$newnode->setAttribute("type", $row['type']);
}
# Closing db connection
db2_close($conn);