{"id":41,"date":"2008-09-07T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T20:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-09-07T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T20:33:53","slug":"simplexml-solution-for-xml-manipulation-in-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2008\/09\/07\/simplexml-solution-for-xml-manipulation-in-php\/","title":{"rendered":"SimpleXML – solution for XML manipulation in PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever do get the need to manipulate (read\/write) XML, you could try using the PHP DOM API<\/a>, but it’s very difficult to use the DOM. An good extension-less way to access and manipulate XML instead is SimpleXML<\/a>. It’s very easy to use compared to DOM and features a easy way to access attributes and tags in any XML document.<\/p>\n

XML file (sample.xml)
\n<\/strong><?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
\n<root><example>This is example number 1<\/example><example><tag>This is a tag.<\/tag><\/example><\/root><\/p>\n

Reading a XML file<\/strong>
\n<?php
\n<\/span><\/span><\/code>$a\u00a0=\u00a0new <\/span>SimpleXMLElement<\/span>(<\/span>file_get_contents<\/span>(<\/span>“sample.xml”<\/span>));
\n<\/span>echo\u00a0$a<\/span>-><\/span>example<\/span>[<\/span>0<\/span>];
\n<\/span>?>
\n<\/span>
\nThe example above will read the sample XML file above and will output the contents of the first <example> element.<\/p>\n

Writing a XML file<\/strong><\/p>\n

<?php
\n$a = new SimpleXMLElement(‘<?xml version=”1.0″ ?><root><\/root>’);
\nfor($i = 1; $i <= 9; $i++) {
\n$a->addChild(“element$i”,”Hello”);
\n}
\necho $a->asXML();
\n?><\/p>\n

The above example will create the following XML file:<\/p>\n

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
\n<root><element1>Hello<\/element1><element2>Hello<\/element2><element3>Hello<\/element3><element4>Hello<\/element4><element5>Hello<\/element5><element6>Hello<\/element6><element7>Hello<\/element7><element8>Hello<\/element8><element9>Hello<\/element9><\/root><\/p>\n

So as you can see, you can very easily manipulate XML with SimpleXML. Don’t forget to subscribe to Compdigitec Labs for more interesting articles!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you ever do get the need to manipulate (read\/write) XML, you could try using the PHP DOM API, but it’s very difficult to use the DOM. An good extension-less way to access and manipulate XML instead is SimpleXML. It’s very easy to use compared to DOM and features a easy way to access attributes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,5],"tags":[197,864,202,201,196,200,199,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}