php - xml what is the best way to do this.

[guymclaren]

IN essence I want to have a script calling the info from the database.. I have no problem thus far, next I want to take said data and write it to an xml file. no problem here either. I think I have that figured time will tell. But here is the problem , I want to append the new entries to the top and delete any older entries after.

 

I sort of have this in mind

 

Get data  php file

delete old xml file unlink

write new xml file  fopen fwrite

 

I don't know if this is the most efficient way of doing this or not, so I thought I'd get some help here.

[rajivgonsalves]

whats your code appending depends on the mode your open it in w, w+, so you can skip deleting the file and just overwrite the content.

[guymclaren]

Thanks Rajiv, just spotted that the file will be over written, so the delete is excess to requirements.