Scribd
Upload
7 views

2 - PHP XML Parser

Uploaded by

HARSH VAIDYA
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
7 views

2 - PHP XML Parser

Uploaded by

HARSH VAIDYA
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 18

PHP XML Parser

Topics to be covered...
• Introduction
• Types of PHP XML Parsers
• Examples
Introduction
• The XML language is a way to structure data for sharing across websites.

• XML is easy to create.

• It looks a lot like HTML, except that you make up your own tags.

• To create, read, update and manipulate an XML document, we need XML Parser
Types of PHP XML Parsers
• Tree-Based Parsers
• SimpleXML

• DOM

• Event-Based Parsers
• XMLReader

• XML Expat Parser


SimpleXML Parser
• SimpleXML provides an easy way of getting an element's name, attributes and textual
content if you know the XML document's structure or layout.

• SimpleXML turns an XML document into a data structure you can iterate through like a
collection of arrays and objects.

• Compared to DOM or the Expat parser, SimpleXML takes a fewer lines of code to read text
data from an element.
SimpleXML Parser
Read From String

<?php
$myXMLData =
"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<note>
<to>Students</to>
<from>Faculty</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>Do not ignore Attendance Rules</body>
</note>";

$xml=simplexml_load_string($myXMLData) or die("Error: Cannot create object");


print_r($xml);
?>
SimpleXML Parser
Read From String

• Output will be as below:

SimpleXMLElement Object ( [to] => Students[from] => Faculty[heading] =>


Reminder [body] => Do not ignore Attendance Rules )
SimpleXML Parser
Read From File

Assume we have an XML file called "test.xml" as below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<note>
<to>Tove</to>

<from>Jani</from>

<heading>Reminder</heading>

<body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>

</note>
SimpleXML Parser
Read From File

<?php

$xml=simplexml_load_file("test.xml") or die("Error: Cannot create object");

print_r($xml);

?>

Output will be like this:

SimpleXMLElement Object ( [to] => Students [from] => Faculty [heading] =>
Reminder [body] => Do not ignore Attendance Rules )
SimpleXML Parser
Get Node Values
<?php
$xml=simplexml_load_file("note.xml") or die("Error: Cannot create object");
echo $xml->to . "<br>";
echo $xml->from . "<br>";
echo $xml->heading . "<br>";
echo $xml->body;
?>

Output will be like this:

Students
Faculty
Reminder
Do not ignore Attendance Rules
SimpleXML Parser
books.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<books>
<book category="Web">
<title lang="en">PHP</title>
<price>30.00</price>
</book>
<book category="Mobile">
<title lang="en">Android</title>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
<book category="Programming">
<title lang="en-us">Java</title>
<price>49.99</price>
</book>
</books>
SimpleXML Parser
Get node values using loop

<?php
$xml=simplexml_load_file("books.xml") or die("Error: Cannot create object");
foreach($xml->children() as $books) {
echo $books->title . " : ";
echo $books->price . "<br>";
}
?>
SimpleXML Parser
Get attribute values using loop

<?php
$xml=simplexml_load_file("books.xml") or die("Error: Cannot create object");
foreach($xml->children() as $books) {
echo $books->title['lang']. " ". $books->price['currency'];
echo "<br>";
}
?>
PHP XML DOM Parser
• The DOM parser is a tree-based parser
• Look at the following XML document fraction:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


<from>xyz</from>

• The DOM sees the XML above as a tree structure:

Level 1: XML Document


Level 2: Root element: <from>
Level 3: Text element: "xyz"
PHP XML DOM Parser
<?php

$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();

$xmlDoc->load("test.xml");

print $xmlDoc->saveXML();

?>
PHP XML DOM Parser
Looping through XML

<?php
$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
$xmlDoc->load("note.xml");

$x = $xmlDoc->documentElement;
foreach ($x->childNodes AS $item) {
print $item->nodeName . " = " . $item->nodeValue . "<br>";
}
?>
PHP XML Expat Parser
• The Expat parser is an event-based parser
• Look at the following XML fraction:

<from>xyz</from>

• An event-based parser reports the XML above as a series of three events:

Start element: from


Start CDATA section, value: xyz
Close element: from
?

You might also like