hi
do u have any ebook about dom and simplexml?
please send me!
thanks alot
--- In php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Rajesh Kumar <rajesh@...> wrote:
>
> XML manipulation is really simple with PHP 5's native DOM and
SimpleXML
> extensions.
>
> I use the SimpleXML extension for parsing an XML file, and the DOM
> extension for creating XML files and/or writing to already
existing files.
>
> For example, if this is your XML file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <users>
> <user id="1" joindate="1102487272">
> <username>rks</username>
> <password>7fd7203caaabcc18bd94d1cf03afd12ddb8f8ad7</password>
> <name>Rajesh Kumar</name>
> </user>
> <user id="2" joindate="1101878008">
> <username>rajesh</username>
> <password>mypass</password>
> <name>Rajesh Kumar</name>
> </user>
> <user id="3" joindate="1101878008">
> <username>benjamin</username>
> <password>1161e6ffd3637b302a5cd74076283a7bd1fc20d3</password>
> <name>Benjamin Myas</name>
> </user>
> </users>
>
> You can read this XML file very easily using SimpleXML:
>
> <?php
>
> $xml = simplexml_load_file('users.xml');
>
> foreach ($xml as $key => $val) {
>
> echo 'Userid: ' . $val['id'] . "\n";
> echo 'Username: ' . $val->username . "\n";
> echo 'Name: ' . $val->name . "\n";
>
> echo "\n";
>
> }
>
> ?>
>
> In other words, your XML elements become properties, while your
> attributes become keys (or indexes).
>
> Similarly, if you want to create the same XML document above, you
could
> use the DOM extension. So say you had a PHP array that you got
from a
> database that looks like this:
>
> $users_array = array(array('id' => 1,
> 'username' => 'rks',
> 'first_name' => 'Rajesh',
> 'last_name' => 'Kumar'),
> array('id' => 2,
> 'username' => 'benjamin',
> 'first_name' => 'Benjamin',
> 'last_name' => 'Myas'));
>
> then, you could transform this array into XML like so:
>
> <?php
>
> $dom = new DOMDocument('1.0');
> $users = $dom->appendChild($dom->createElement('users'));
>
> foreach ($users_array as $user_array) {
>
> $user = $users->appendChild($dom->createElement('user'));
>
> foreach ($user_array as $key => $val) {
>
> if ($key == 'id') {
>
> // say our app requires ids to be stored as attributes
> $user->setAttribute('id', $user_array['id']);
>
> } elseif ($key == 'username') {
>
> // let's store the username as CDATA because
according to
> // our app, it can contain special chars
>
> $CDataNode = $user->appendChild($dom->createElement
($key));
> $CDataNode->appendChild($dom->createCDATASection
($val));
>
> } else {
>
> // regular text nodes
>
> $textNode = $user->appendChild($dom->createElement
($key));
> $textNode->appendChild($dom->createTextNode($val));
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> $dom->formatOutput = true;
> echo $dom->saveXML();
>
> ?>
>
> --
> Rajesh
>
> z.shafiee wrote:
> > hi..
> > i dont know how xml work!
> > i see functions for parssing xml with php4 and php5 but not
enough.
> > i need more information about startElement and endElement and
> > characterData functions.
> > please help me.
> > thanks.
>
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