Hi all,
How to call the xml elements in php?
Regards,
vani

Hi vani,

Actually what do you want?

__________________
Thanks & Regards,
R.Kamalakannan.

Hi Kamal,

I want to know how we get the xml elements in php.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<reports>
<project>
Projects - 8
</project>
<task>
Task - 8
</task>
</reports>

from the above example what is the method to get the <task> tag value only.

This is my doubt...

Hi Vani,

Using DOM Object we can able to get tag value. Look the below code using this you can get the tag value.

will return as,

__________________
Thanks & Regards,
R.Kamalakannan.

Thanks kamal,
This code works fine in PHP 5

Hi,

how to get the xml elements in php.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<books>
<bookauthor>
<author>Jack Herrington</author>
<author>John Write</author>
</bookauthor>
<booktitle>
<title>PHP Hacks</title>
<title>Podcasting Hacks</title>
</booktitle>
</books>


I need <bookauthor> and <booktitle> tag value only return array.

do you understand my question?

hi,

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load( 'test.xml' );
$books = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "bookauthor" );
foreach( $books as $book )
{
$authors = $book->getElementsByTagName( "author" );
$aNew = array();
for($i=0;$i<$authors->length;$i++)
{
$author = $authors->item($i)->nodeValue;
$aNew[] = $author;
}
}
print_r( $aNew);

hi,

test.xml
--------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<books>
<bookauthor>
<author>Jack Herrington</author>
<author>John Write</author>
</bookauthor>
<booktitle>
<title>PHP Hacks</title>
<title>Podcasting Hacks</title>
</booktitle>
</books>

i need to added one row <author>Arnold </author> and <title> Javascript </title>.

how to append?

Hi senraj,

Try this

Hi Sen,
Do you want to update the author and title of xml file through php code? if so, let this code may help

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load( 'test.xml' );
$books = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "books" );


//Checking the existing author
$total=0;
foreach( $books as $book )
{
$authors = $book->getElementsByTagName( "author" );
$i_length=$authors->length;

for($i=0;$i<$i_length;$i++)
{
if($authors->item($i)->nodeValue=="Arnold")
{
$total++;
}

}
}

//Appending the author
if($total==0)
{
$upadate = $doc->getElementsByTagName('bookauthor')->item(0);

$newElement = $doc ->createElement('author');
$txtNode = $doc ->createTextNode ("Arnold");
$newElement -> appendChild($txtNode);
$update -> appendChild($newElement);



//appending the title
$update = $doc->getElementsByTagName('booktitle')->item(0);
$newElement = $doc ->createElement('title');
$txtNode = $doc ->createTextNode ("Javascript");
$newElement -> appendChild($txtNode);
$update -> appendChild($newElement);

$test = $doc->save("test.xml");
}


//To know the result that you updated
foreach( $books as $book )
{

$authors = $book->getElementsByTagName( "author" );
$title = $book->getElementsByTagName( "title" );
$aNew = array();
$i_length=$authors->length;
for($i=0;$i<$i_length;$i++)
{
echo "<br>Author:".$author = $authors->item($i)->nodeValue;
echo "<br>Title:".$titles = $title->item($i)->nodeValue;
}
}
Let me know if an issue regarding in this

எவ்வளவோ பண்ணிடோம் இத பண்ண மாடோமா என்ன!!!

__________________
regards
K.Lakshmanan
[Web developer]

hi Lakshmanan,

thank's for your reply.

hi,

<?php

Class books extends domDocument {
function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}
function addBook($author,$title ) {
$titleElement = $this->createElement("title");
$titleElement->appendChild($this->createTextNode($title));
$authorElement = $this->createElement("author");
$authorElement->appendChild($this->createTextNode($author));
$bookElement = $this->createElement("book");
$bookElement->appendChild($titleElement);
$bookElement->appendChild($authorElement);
$this->documentElement->appendChild($bookElement);
}
}
header("Content-type: text/xml");
$dom = new books();
$dom->load("test.xml");
$dom->addBook("javascript", "arnold");
print $dom->saveXML();

?>