Read XML

[NZ_Kiwis]

hey, does anyone know how of a script or can help me with this.. I want a .php script to read a XML file and list all the nodes ie:

<Header>test</Header>
<Job>Manager</Manager>

echo $Header;
echo $Job;

Can anyone help with this...

[NogDog]

If you're running PHP5, take a look at the [man]SimpleXML[/man] functions.

[NZ_Kiwis]

my XML files are .xml not .php so the include('exmaple.php'); will not work for me... any other ideas???

[NZ_Kiwis]

$xmlstr = simplexml_load_file('newstouload.xml');

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);

foreach ($xml->movie[0]->rating as $rating) {
   switch((string) $rating['type']) { // Get attributes as element indices
   case 'thumbs':
       echo $rating, ' thumbs up';
       break;
   case 'stars':
       echo $rating, ' stars';
       break;
   }
}

My error is

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: newstouload.xml:2: parser error : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document in /home/rlnz/public_html/application/publishnews.php on line 3

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> in /home/rlnz/public_html/application/publishnews.php on line 3

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: ^ in /home/rlnz/public_html/application/publishnews.php on line 3

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /home/rlnz/public_html/application/publishnews.php:5 Stack trace: #0 /home/rlnz/public_html/application/publishnews.php(5): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('') #1 {main} thrown in /home/rlnz/public_html/application/publishnews.php on line 5

[NogDog]

Sounds like the XML file you are trying to load is malformed. You might want to try opening it in Firefox2, which usually does a pretty decent job of showing you where and XML parse errors are; or you could post it here if you'd like.