PHP and XML

[obmon]

I'm new to XML in PHP. I have the following XML tag.. all i want to do is through a variable, find the text that matches the language specified in the variable.. and then echo the text.

I thought this would be much easier.. but I was wrong.

Any Help?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<panelTitle>
	<title lang="ar">
		<text>&#1608;&#1604;&#1608; &#1575;&#1605;&#1578;&#1604;&#1603;&#1578;</text>
	</title>
	<title lang="en">
		<text>Latest news</text>
	</title>
	<title lang="fr">
		<text>la pensée son</text>
	</title>
	<title lang="jp">
		<text>&#21205;&#29289;&#12398;&#38291;&#12398;&#30456;</text>
	</title>
	<title lang="sp">
		<text>pueda adquirir</text>
	</title>
</panelTitle>

[obmon]

Nevermind... i got it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<panelTitle>
	<title>
		<lang>ar</lang>
		<text>&#1608;&#1604;&#1608; &#1575;&#1605;&#1578;&#1604;&#1603;&#1578;</text>
	</title>
	<title>
		<lang>en</lang>
		<text>Latest news</text>
	</title>
	<title>
		<lang>fr</lang>
		<text>la pensée son</text>
	</title>
	<title>
		<lang>jp</lang>
		<text>&#21205;&#29289;&#12398;&#38291;&#12398;&#30456;</text>
	</title>
	<title>
		<lang>sp</lang>
		<text>pueda adquirir</text>
	</title>
</panelTitle>

<?php

$xml_file = "../uiText/news_panel.xml";

$xml_lang_key = "*PANELTITLE*TITLE*LANG";
$xml_text_key = "*PANELTITLE*TITLE*TEXT";

$story_array = array();

$counter = 0;

class xml_story{
	var $lang, $text;
}

function startTag($parser, $data){
	global $current_tag;
	$current_tag .= "*$data";
}

function endTag($parser, $data){
	global $current_tag;
	$tag_key = strrpos($current_tag, '*');
	$current_tag = substr($current_tag, 0, $tag_key);
}

function contents($parser, $data){
	global $current_tag, $xml_lang_key, $xml_text_key, $counter, $story_array;
	switch($current_tag){
		case $xml_lang_key:
			$story_array[$counter] = new xml_story();
			$story_array[$counter]->lang = $data;
			break;
		case $xml_text_key:
			$story_array[$counter]->text = $data;
			$counter++;
			break;
	}
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startTag", "endTag");

xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "contents");

$fp = fopen($xml_file, "r")
	or die("Could not open file");

$data = fread($fp, filesize($xml_file))
	or die("Could not read file");

if(!(xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)))){
	die("Error on line " . xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser));
}

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

fclose($fp);

for($x=0;$x<count($story_array);$x++){
	echo "\t<h2>" . $story_array[$x]->lang . "</h2>\n";
	echo "\t\t\n";
	echo "\t<i>" . $story_array[$x]->text . "</i>\n";
}

?>