XML and PHP

[jane]

Hi,
when using XML with PHP, do I have to creat the parser first? or just use the built-in parser Expat. How to connect .xml file from PHP file?

Thanks,

[bbaassiri]

	$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
	// set callback functions
	xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
	xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

if (!xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $data, $vals, $index) ){
		die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
					xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
					xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

try this to see if the extension functions are available

 print_r (get_extension_funcs ("xml"));

I hope this helps

[jane]

Thanks. It helped a lot.

[michael]

There is an extensive example in the php.net help documentation.