How to display XML data in web page using PHP ?
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31 Mar, 2021
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In this article, we are going to display data present in an XML file on a web page using PHP through the XAMPP server. PHP is a server-side scripting language that is mainly for processing web data. The XML stands for an extensible markup language.
Requirements:
XAMPP server
Syntax:
<root> <child> <subchild>.....</subchild> </child> </root>
Approach: We are going to use mainly two functions in our PHP code. The simplexml_load_file() function is used to convert an XML document to an object.
- simplexml_load_file
simplexml_load_file(name of XML file)
- children(): The children() function finds the children of a specified node.
$xml_data->children()
Steps to execute:
- Step 1: Start XAMPP server.
- Open notepad and type the following codes in xml_data.xml and code.php formats The xml_data.xml: Consider student XML data as an example.
xml_data.xml <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?> <collegedata> <department category = "IT"> <subjects lang = "en">java</subjects> <name>G.Sravan Kumar</name> <age>22</age> <marks>98</marks> <address>guntur</address> </department> <department category = "CSE"> <subjects lang = "en">Python</subjects> <name>B. Naga sudheer</name> <age>28</age> <marks>96</marks> <address>guntur</address> </department> <department category = "IT"> <subjects lang = "en">sql</subjects> <name>Radha</name> <age>25</age> <marks>78</marks> <address>guntur</address> </department> </collegedata>
Step 3:The following is the code for code.php file.
code.php <?php // Start php code // Load xml file into xml_data variable $xml_data = simplexml_load_file("xml_data.xml") or die("Error: Object Creation failure"); // Use foreach loop to display data and for sub elements access, // We will use children() function foreach ($xml_data->children() as $data) { //display each sub element in xml file echo "Subject name : ", $data->subjects . "<br> "; echo "Student name : ", $data->name . "<br> "; echo "Student age : ", $data->age . "<br> "; echo "Student marks : ", $data->marks . "<br>"; echo "Student address : ", $data->address . "<br>"; echo "------------------------------------"; echo "<br>"; } ?>
- Step 4: Save these two files in xampp/htdocs/geek folder. The developer can use any other folder instead of geek folder.
