Read XML file using PHP
Reading XML file in PHP is as easy as copy-paste. We can read an XML file using simplexml_load_file() function which takes XML filename as a parameter:
simplexml_load_file($filename);
Let's read an XML file containing song list:
Now the PHP:
?php
$filename = "sample.xml";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($filename);
?>
Now you access any tag in the XML using the variable $xml.
Let's see how it works:
Now let's what it did for us:
You can also access the attributes like this:
And here is the output:
Hope this tutorial will be helpful to you...
simplexml_load_file($filename);
Let's read an XML file containing song list:
Now the PHP:
?php
$filename = "sample.xml";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($filename);
?>
Now you access any tag in the XML using the variable $xml.
Let's see how it works:
Now let's what it did for us:
You can also access the attributes like this:
which will look like this:
And in the end if you want to read the whole XML, then abviously loop will be used, here is the code:
And here is the output:
Hope this tutorial will be helpful to you...
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