Configuration

The various “fetch” methods of the Feed/XML connector all take the same parameters:

Parameter Data type Description
uri string

URI of the XML file to read. This may be any of the following syntaxes:

  • absolute file path: /var/foo/web/fileadmin/import/bar.xml (within the TYPO3 root path or TYPO3_CONF_VARS[BE][lockRootPath])
  • file path relative to the TYPO3 root: fileadmin/import/foo.xml
  • file path using EXT:: EXT:foo/Resources/Private/Data/bar.xml
  • fully qualified URL, e.g. http://www.example.com/foo.xml
  • FAL reference with storage ID and file identifier: FAL:2:/foo.xml
  • custom syntax: MYKEY:whatever_you_want, see Connector Services
encoding string

Encoding of the data found in the file. This value must match any of the encoding values or their synonyms found in class \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Charset\CharsetConverter. Note that this means pretty much all the usual encodings. If unsure look at array \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Charset\CharsetConverter::synonyms.

Warning

If your are aiming for the array format (i.e. calling fetchArray(), you should not define this property. Indeed the \Cobweb\Svconnector\Utility\ConnectorUtility::convertXmlToArray() which is used in this case relies on the SimpleXML library, which already takes care of the encoding conversion. To avoid a double encoding just ignore this property.
useragent string

User agent to fake. This is sometimes necessary to bypass access restrictions on some sites. Don’t include the “User-Agent:” part of the header.


Examples:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US;

rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13