XML array to HTML form

[drisate]

Hey guys, i have an XML file that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<data>
    <debug>1</debug>
	<db>
		<host>localhost</host>
		<user>***</user>
		<pass>***</pass>
		<name>***</name>
	</db>
	<config>
		<path_to_site>***:81</path_to_site>
		<path_to_movies>media</path_to_movies>
		<full_path_to_movies>/var/www/media/movies/</full_path_to_movies>
		<full_path_to_shows>/var/www/media/shows/</full_path_to_shows>
		<tmdb_api_key>***</tmdb_api_key>
		<lang_api_key>***</lang_api_key>
		<tvdb_api_key>***</tvdb_api_key>
		<allowed_movie_ext>
			<ext>mp4</ext>
			<ext>m4v</ext>
		</allowed_movie_ext>
		<delete_skiped>1</delete_skiped>
		<system>linux</system>
		<lastmovies>25</lastmovies>
		<language>en</language>
		<country>US</country>
		<debug>0</debug>
		<junk>
			<word>1080p</word>
			<word>BluRay</word>
			<word>x264</word>
			<word>YIFY</word>
			<word>YIFY</word>
			<word>BrRip</word>
			<word>BOKUTOX</word>
			<word>YIF</word>
			<word>bitloks</word>
			<word>deceit</word>
			<word>BrRip</word>
			<word> GAZ</word>
			<word>GAZ</word>
			<word>UNRATED</word>
			<word>ECE</word>
			<word>mkv</word>
			<word>DVDSCR</word>
			<word>XViD</word>
			<word>FRENCH</word>
			<word>TS</word>
			<word>MD</word>
			<word>SKuLL322</word>
			<word>DTS</word>
			<word>Multi</word>
			<word>bluray</word>
			<word>net</word>
			<word>torrentfrancais</word>
			<word>truefrench</word>
			<word>5.1</word>
			<word>\xb7</word>
		</junk>
		<user_lang>
			<lang>en</lang>
			<lang>fr</lang>
			<lang>es</lang>
		</user_lang>
	</config>
	<hdd>
		<path>
			<torrent_path>/var/Simflix/scripts/addons/torrent/</torrent_path>
			<temp_path>/var/Simflix/scripts/addons/temp/</temp_path>
			<save_path>/mnt/My Book 4/media/series temp/</save_path>
		</path>
		<path>
			<torrent_path>/var/Simflix/scripts/addons/rss_download/torrents/</torrent_path>
			<temp_path>/var/Simflix/scripts/addons/temp/</temp_path>
			<save_path>/mnt/My Book 4/media/movies temp/</save_path>
		</path>
	</hdd>
</data>

I use that XML data in my website like this:

$config = simplexml_load_file('/var/Simflix/www/config.xml');

It working great but now i need to create a code that would edit that XML file ...

 

So fare i manager to do this:

 

function print_input($name, $value){
    print ('
	<div class="formRow">
        <label>'.ucfirst($name).': </label>
        <div class="formRight">
             <input id="name" name="'.$name.'" value="'.$value.'" class="span input" type="text"/>
        </div>
     </div>
    ');
}
function print_input_array($name, $value, $title){
    $rand = rand("999999999", "999999999999");
    print ('
	<div class="formRow">
        <label><span class="addmore" name="'.$name.'" rel="g'.$rand.'" style="cursor:pointer">(ADD)</span> '.ucfirst($title).': </label>
        <div id="g'.$rand.'" class="formRight">
             <input id="name" name="'.$name.'[]" value="'.$value.'" class="span input" type="text"/>
        </div>
     </div>
    ');
}

$config_array = get_object_vars($config);

foreach($config_array[db] as $name=>$value){
    print_input($name, $value);
}

foreach($config_array[config] as $name=>$value){
    if (is_array($value)){
        foreach($value as $name1=>$value1){
            print_input_array($name1, $value1, $name);
        }
    }else{
        print_input($name, $value);
    }
}

But for some reason, the print_input_array() is not triggured when i get to the allowed_movie_ext, junk, user_lang [...]

 

Is there a better way of making an HTML form from a XML object?

Edited June 13, 2016 by drisate

[requinix]

$value is never an array. It's always a SimpleXMLElement object. Even if the XML node does not have children.

 

Try count()ing to see how many children the element has.

[nik_jain]

Use a DOM parser like querypath to parse the XML

 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-querypath/