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[perrohunter]

Hello everyone , I was wondering whats the best way to read or just to take information right out of an xml file.

Is there a way to just turn a root element into an array just like a whole row come from mysql ??

Whats the best way to do this ?

Thanks to all of you 🙂 😃 😃 😃

[whisher06]

Hi.
If you've got PHP5 it should be SimpleXML
Bye.

[perrohunter]

thanks alot for your quick answer , yeah so far what i have readed is that simplexml do the thing but , i have php4 :glare:

what else could i do ??

:queasy: :queasy: :queasy:

[whisher06]

:glare:
I found it at
xml_parse

<?php
$file = 'test.xml';
$stack = array();

function startTag($parser, $name, $attrs)
{
   global $stack;
   $tag=array("name"=>$name,"attrs"=>$attrs); 
   array_push($stack,$tag);

}

function cdata($parser, $cdata)
{
   global $stack,$i;

   if(trim($cdata))
   {   

       $stack[count($stack)-1]['cdata']=$cdata;   

   }
}

function endTag($parser, $name)
{
   global $stack; 
   $stack[count($stack)-2]['children'][] = $stack[count($stack)-1];
   array_pop($stack);
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startTag", "endTag");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "cdata");

$data = xml_parse($xml_parser,file_get_contents($file));
if(!$data) {
   die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

print("<pre>\n");
print_r($stack);
print("</pre>\n");
?>

Bye.