XML Speed Issues

[jonno946]

Hello,

We are constantly parsing lots of large XML files (<3mb) on our server from our partners and using PHP to parse and display the data to the user.

Our problem is however server load. When parsing > 3 feeds at the same time load on the server gets very high.

We are using simplexml to parse and file_get_contents to fetch the XML file.

Just wondering if anyone can suggest a way to reduce this load? I beleive that the load is associated with file_get_contents and not the xml parsing - is there a way of retriving large files using PHP but without the overhead?

Thanks,

Jon.

[Weedpacket]

You could look at using the [man]XML[/man] parser functions, which were designed to operate on streamed XML; so avoiding having to load the entire file before being able to do anything with it.

[jonno946]

thanks i'll look into usig an event based parser.

cheers.