Simple XML to MySQL parse question

[chrispynic]

I'm loading an XML file to MySQL via a PHP script and need some help.  In the XML file there is a node called "description" and I want to ignore part of the string (everything in parentheses) when loading it into the db.

 

Example Value in XML File:

 

<description>Radio City Music Hall (1260-6th Avenue , New York, NY, 10020) </description>

 

My PHP file:

$xml = simplexml_load_file('./tmp/file.xml');

 

foreach($xml as $node){

 

$sql = "INSERT INTO feed_data(source_feed ,url ,event_name ,event_venue ,price ,image_url,event_date,event_time) values ('".mysql_real_escape_string($node->programname)."','".mysql_real_escape_string($node->buyurl)."','".mysql_real_escape_string($node->name)."','".mysql_real_escape_string($node->description)."','".$node->price."','".mysql_real_escape_string($node->impressionurl)."',STR_TO_DATE('".$node->startdate."','%m/%d/%Y %r'),STR_TO_DATE('".$node->startdate."','%m/%d/%Y %r'))";

       

        mysql_query($sql);

        echo mysql_error();

}

mysql_close();

 

 

Any recommendations on how to do this within the current format?  I've looked all over, but I'm a newbie and not really sure what I'm looking for..

 

[chrispynic]

I'm kind of surprised no one responded to me on this - turns out it was pretty easy, so I'll put the solution here for future reference.  I used preg_replace:

 

$venue = preg_replace('(\(.*?\))', '', $node->description);

 

and then loaded $venue into the db.