Example
Similarly to the SimpleXML, you can use DOMDocument to parse XML from a string or from a XML file
1. From a string
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($string);
2. From a file
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('books.xml');// use the actual file path. Absolute or relative
Example of parsing
Considering the following XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<books>
<book>
<name>PHP - An Introduction</name>
<price>$5.95</price>
<id>1</id>
</book>
<book>
<name>PHP - Advanced</name>
<price>$25.00</price>
<id>2</id>
</book>
</books>
This is a example code to parse it
$books = $doc->getElementsByTagName('book');
foreach ($books as $book) {
$title = $book->getElementsByTagName('name')->item(0)->nodeValue;
$price = $book->getElementsByTagName('price')->item(0)->nodeValue;
$id = $book->getElementsByTagName('id')->item(0)->nodeValue;
print_r ("The title of the book $id is $title and it costs $price." . "\n");
}
This will output:
The title of the book 1 is PHP - An Introduction and it costs $5.95.
The title of the book 2 is PHP - Advanced and it costs $25.00.
