Parsing XML using PHP4

By Burhan Khalid
2005-08-16


Parsing with PHP

< ?xml version="1.0"?> must be the first line in a XML file. It is called the xml declaration and identifies the file as a XML file to a parser.

Parsing with PHP

The PHP engine comes with built-in functions to enable XML parsing using the expat library written by James Clark.
These functions allow us to create our own XML parser. The XML functions we will use (linked to their php manual references) are :

• xml_parser_create()
• xml_set_element_handler()
• xml_set_character_data_handler()
• xml_parse()
• xml_parser_free()
• xml_error_string()
• xml_get_error_code()
• xml_get_current_line_number()

Other (non xml) PHP function that we will use are :

• fopen()
• fread()
• feof()
• eregi_replace()

Tutorial Pages:
» Parsing XML using PHP4
» XML File Structure
» Creating our XML File
» Parsing with PHP
» Creating our Parser
» Setting up tag handlers
» Setting up content (data) handlers
» Starting up the parser
» Creating the gallery


© 2004-2005 Burhan Khalid

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