Create vars from xml feed

[Herk]

I will be very specific. I have an xml feed from an external server that looks like this:

http://stats.planetsidegaming.com/15/273380/stats2.xml

I can leave out "character" all together. I would like each of these nodes to become vars in php from the external xml feed, without concern of parent-child relationships. I simply want it to recognize each node as a variable.

What is the best way to go about this? If possible could someone help me with the php script.

I know that I am asking a great deal, but would very much appreciate whatever help you could provide.

Thank you kindly,
Herk

[Weedpacket]

Looks easy enough; a regular expression for [man]preg_match_all/man would get the node names and their contents:

/<(.*?)>(.*?)</

with the two bits matched going into an array.

The second bit to create the variable from the first bit and give it the value from the second bit is easy: the entire line (assuming the array of (arrays of) matches is called $m) is:

${$m[1][$i]}=$m[2][$i];

, where $i is being used to loop through all the matches from the XML page.

From what I see of the format, that would be it.

[Herk]

Wow, that seems absolutely genius. However, while I see what you are accomplishing in a broad sense, I have to admit that I still have not much of an idea what that will output. Or, even how to create the whole script. Also, how do I post there variables to be extracted from flash?

Herk