Editting XML Files with PHP

[Zipp425]

Ive been working on a way to edit an xml file, I have been using fopen and just specifying a specific line to replace, but that wasnt working very well, because sometimes lines seemed to be off, or users would give data that would cause line breaks.

I just recently learned about SimpleXML in PHP5, and I was wondering if someone could explain to me how I could use PHP to open a XML file, and select a specific tag name and replace a specific attribute, or a array of attributes.

I would be using xmlHttpRequest to pass data to the PHP file that would then open and edit the XML file.

Thanks for your help in advance

[Barand]

see example 7

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php

[Zipp425]

Beautiful. Thank you very much.

Now, do you know if there is a way to make it so it will only create the new file once, and later just edit the created file?

I would like to have one standard XML file that is then editted by user select and saved to a different XML file according to their userid

IE
[code]
standard.xml
--User Changes default settings
---new attributes saved as userid.xml
----User changes more settings
-----edit attributes in userid.xml
[/code]

Nevermind, unless im wrong it looks like you can specify a file to write to with asXML()

Thanks for your help.