Can I Use Values from XML in my code?

[brentwatson]

Hey All,

I'm trying to read an xml file and use a value in one of the tags as a variable in my code (a string to be exact).

In detail; I'm trying to load a xml file called "config.xml". Then I'm trying to get a value that is at "/module/pageinfo/login/xslfile". I want to use the value in <xslfile></xslfile> (this holds the name of an xslfile. For example: <xslfile>example1.xsl</xslfile>) to load the appropriate xsl file.

I've done this successfully using Microsofts XML DOM using the following code:
getElementsByTagName("module/pageinfo/login/xslfile").item(0).text

Now I'm trying to port it over to use PHP's DOM and I can't seem to get the value out of an xml tag.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Brent Watson.

[128kb_com]

I would have to say that xml_parse_into_struct/COLOR would be the best option to get just a couple of node values from an xml document. Here's a generic example:

$file = "/path/to/xml_file";
$xml_data   = implode('', file($file));
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
if (!xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $xml_data, $vals, $index)) {
	die(sprintf("syntax error: %s at XML input line %d in %s\n",
                   xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                    xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser),
                    $file));
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

echo "Index array\n";
print_r($index);
echo "\nVals array\n";
print_r($vals);

This will create 2 parallel arrays, one (index) containing pointers to the location of the appropriate values in the values array.

Some good, more complete examples are listed in thwe manual at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse-into-struct.php