php: parsing xml

by prettyscripts on 2007-12-14 01:11:22

in php5, parsing and processing xml can be easily done with SimpleXML extension.

to parse xml file:

PHP:

$obj = simplexml_load_file($file);

to parse xml string:

PHP:

$obj = simplexml_load_string($string);

example

XML:

<data>
    <tag>value 1<tag>
    <tag attribute="attrbute value">value 2<tag>
</data>

after loading xml into $obj, access tag values as class method:

PHP:

$obj->tag
$obj->tag[i] //if more than 1 tag

access tag attribute as array:

PHP:

$obj->tag['attribute']
$obj->tag[i]['attribute'] // if more than 1 tag

Tags: php, xml

	`<data>`
	`<tag>value 1<tag>`
	`<tag attribute="attrbute value">value 2<tag>`
	`</data>`

	`$obj->tag['attribute']`
	`$obj->tag[i]['attribute'] // if more than 1 tag`