Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP Simple XML Parser.
The simple xml parser is used to parse Names, attributes, and textual contents.
The simple xml parser is used to parse Names, attributes, and textual contents.
Simple XML Functions
Simple xml functions are shown below -
simplexml_load_file()
This function accepts file path as a first parameter and its very compulsory.
simplexml_load_file(($fileName,$class,$options,$ns,$is_prefix)
simplexml_load_string()
This function accepts the string instead of file reference.
simplexml_load_string($XMLData,$class,$options,$ns,$is_prefix)
READ: PHP XML Introduction
simplexml_import_dom()
This xml function accepts Dom formatted xml content and then converts into simple xml.
simplexml_load_string($DOMNode,$class)
Example
The below example shows how to parse an XML data file -
<?php $data = "<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?> <note> <Course>Web Development</Course> <Subject>HTML</Subject> <Company>Web Design Tutorialz</Company> <Price>$20</Price> </note>"; $xml = simplexml_load_string($data) or die("Error: Cannot create object"); ?> <html> <head> <body> <?php print_r($xml); ?> </body> </head> </html>
Output
When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -
SimpleXMLElement Object ( [Course] => Web Development [Subject] => HTML [Company] => Web Design Tutorialz [Price] => $20 )
We can also call an xml data file as shown below and it produces the same result as shown above -
<?php $xml = simplexml_load_file("data") or die("Error: Cannot create object"); print_r($xml); ?>
READ: PHP and XML Tutorial
Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about the PHP - Simple XML GET.
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