SimpleXMLElement and reading .xml files

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

i'm experimenting with reading .xml files currently i have:

 

<?php
       
$filecontent = file_get_contents("filename.xml");

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($filecontent);

echo $xml->asXML();

?>

 

this works great, it reads back in a nice format the contents of the .xml file, but im wanting to take information from the .xml file and store them in variables for later use but i'm not sure how to search the .xml file and take what i want, any advice would be great

 

cheers guys

 

Graham

[Barand]

xpath() is one way. Can you be more specific?

[graham23s]

Hi B,

 

for example in this .xml file there is a posters name:

 

<file poster="[email protected]"

 

i was wanting to read the .xml grab who the poster is and store it in a variable if possible

 

thanks mate

 

Graham

[jscix]

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xmlphp1.html

[Barand]

$xml = simplexml_load_file('myxml.xml');

foreach ($xml->xpath('//file') as $file)
{
    echo "{$file['poster']} <br />";
}

[graham23s]

Thamks a lot guys im gettin there lol

 

Graham