For something that simple in PHP4, I didn't even bother with the 50-line expat lib solution... A couple preg matches, or even just strtok and call it done... //assume file_get_contents is too "new"... //probably wrong, but be safe $xml = implode('', file('www.librarytools.com/events/sampledata.txt')); preg_match_all('|<result i="[0-9+]">.*<f n="eventname">([^<]*)</f>.*(f n="eventnextoccurrencedate">([^<]*)</f>)?|msiU', $xml, $eventdata); var_dump($eventdata); I probably got the regex wrong -- I usually do... On Thu, March 8, 2007 2:59 pm, Rob Gould wrote: > Ok, well after fiddling around with PHP samples from the web for a > few hours, I'm shot. But I have a project due soon that relies on > this so I'm willing to pay someone: > > I'll send $35 to someone via paypal who can create a PHP script that > will do the following: > > 1) Read XML data from an URL (www.librarytools.com/events/ > sampledata.txt) > 2) Loop through all XML results and print to the screen the > "eventname" and "eventnextoccurrencedate" (Just the date) values > > > I'll probably kick myself once I see how easy it is, but I'm willing > to pay to see it working. Feel free to email me off-list. > > - Rob > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php