[SOLVED] SimpleXML question (really a noob question - bigtime)

[prime]

Hi I'm using php to parse a xml

 

heres my code

 

<table border="1" bordercolor="red" width="80%">

<?php
  $entries = simplexml_load_file('toollinks.xml');
  foreach ($entries->link as $entry) 
  
  		{
      		        echo "<tr><td>"; 
		echo "<a href=\"$entry->sitelink\">$entry->name</a>";
		echo "</td> <td>"; 
		echo "$entry->sitelink";
		echo "</td></tr>"; 

	}
  ?>
  
</table>

 

My question is, is there an easy way to sort this, I know this is probaly just a sort() but I'm new to xml fullstop and am unsure exactly where to use this. and my brain has been a fuse getting this far

 

 

[BenInBlack]

well there is no sorting the XML, You have to take the values from xml into arrays, then sort the arrays and then rebuild the xml

 

here is some quick code to bring all the 'link' elements into an array and iterate thru them to get the sub-elements.

$entries = simplexml_load_file('toollinks.xml');
$links = $entries->link; // points to first link element
$i = 0;
foreach ($links as $link) {	// now $links becomes an iterator
$linkarray[$i] = array('name'=>'','sitelink'=>'');
$linkarray[$i]['name'] = (string)$link->name;
$linkarray[$i]['sitelink'] = (string)$link->sitelink;
$i++;
}

[prime]

then I just shuffle the arrays and do a foreach loop? that simple?

[BenInBlack]

yup

[prime]

Thank you very much :-) I first started trying to fiund out about how to parse xml a,d I was first trying to make sense of the expat parser, which was giving me nightmares.

 

this simple xml parser makes life a lot easier

 

Thank you again :-)