understand an xml parsed array

[perrohunter]

Hi everyone

I was wondering, after an xml has been parsed , whats next ??

all i get is this weird structure , my real interest is about how to loop this array so i get similar results like when i loop an array that came out of a database

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [name] => DADDY
            [attrs] => Array
                (
                )

        [children] => Array
            (
                [0] => Array
                    (
                        [name] => CAT
                        [attrs] => Array
                            (
                            )

                        [cdata] => Boris
                    )

                [1] => Array
                    (
                        [name] => DOG
                        [attrs] => Array
                            (
                            )

                        [cdata] => Puchis
                    )

            )

    )

)

[perrohunter]

Im currently trying to use this code so i can loop , first for each children tag , then in each children tag, for each array that it has , then for each array show name and cdata

<?php
$file = 'lol.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");

$y00 = $stack[0][children][0][cdata];
echo " $y00";

echo "<br><br>";
$i = 0;
foreach($stack AS $rofl )
{
	$catname = $stack[0][children][0][cdata];

foreach($lol[children] AS $gop)
{

	foreach($gop AS $meow)
	{
		$mau = $meow[name];
		$ve = $mewo[cdata];

		echo "$meow - $ve";


	}



}


}


?> 

My xml is this one :

<whole>
	<daddy>
	<cat>Boris</cat>
	<dog>Puchis</dog>
	</daddy>
	<daddy>
	<cat>Scarlet</cat>
	<dog>Fido</dog>
	</daddy>
</whole>

[Weedpacket]

Well, I'm guessing that you didn't write the parser handlers yourself because they're quite a bit more complicated than you're needing (you don't actually have any attributes in your file....) but have you looked at Example 2 of [man]xml-parse-into-struct[/man]? With a few name changes it looks a lot like your case.