[RESOLVED] Reading XHTML information into an array

[SuPerNoVi]

Okay basically I'm posting a form to a PHP handler that gets the XHTML from $_POST into an array.

So on the PHP side I have all the information I need, but I need to seperate the array into fields and values.

So this is what is posted and taken from the $_POST array...

<events BeginSequence=”100000” EndSequence=”100010” Unit=”MFTA”>
<event BeginSequence=”100000” PayRoll=”10054” RecordedAt=”24/09/2008 11:53:02” Security”B” Direction=”I” />
<event BeginSequence=”100001” PayRoll=”10078” RecordedAt=”24/09/2008 11:53:02” Security”P” Direction=”O” />
</events>

I now need to extract each event within events and the tag + value.

For example in a 2 dimensional array I need <event BeginSequence=”100000” PayRoll=”10054” RecordedAt=”24/09/2008 11:53:02” Security”B” Direction=”I” /> to become...

array( 
array( BeginSequence=> 100000, PayRoll=> 10054, RecordedAt=> 24/09/2008 11:53:02,  Security=> "B",  Direction=> "I"  ), 
...
...
)

Never had to work with XHTML before so hoping someone can help me. Thanks in advance.

[Weedpacket]

You mean XML; see the [man]DOM[/man] or [man]SimpleXML[/man] extensions.

[SuPerNoVi]

Okay so it's XML but could you lend a hand figuring out how to do what I said above?

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

The documentation for the extensions I linked to have a number of examples of their use; I figured that the reason why you'd been having trouble finding useful information on processing XML is because you were looking for the wrong thing.

[SuPerNoVi]

It's okay, I've managed to figure it out now using simplexml.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.