XML datastring to PHP script

I am about to write a script that collects XML datastrings that is sent from webpage.

I have worked with datastrings sent via HTML form post before but I have never used XML.

What method should I use?

Are there any guides examples out there?

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eeeekkkk!! Information overload

say this is the XML datastring

<member>
name="joe"
<address>
street="12 street"
</address>

<phone>
phone="1234"
</phone>

</member>

Would I use something like this??:

$name = $member->getattr("name");
$street = $address->getattr("street");
$phone = $phone->getattr("phone");

print "$name, $street, $phone";

I haven't done that much PHP XML; there are a couple or so articles on this site though.

Ok Thanks anyway.

There does not seem to be any examples of a php script getting XML datastrings. All the ones I find talk about using a *.xml file to get the data.

Well, that's no problem: data coming in from an .xml file is put into a string before being sent to the parser. You just skip that step.