Thursday, April 20, 2006

simple XML in php5

In php5 there is a new simple way to process or create XML files , It's the SimpleXML
It's not the powerful or the best but it's the simplest and the best choice for working with simple xml files like RSS.

here I will show you how you can read a RSS feed in simple steps with SimpleXML

first, we will start a new Object that's takes the path of the XML file, we will read the arabic bbc news feed so we will use this url ( http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/arabic/news/rss.xml )

CODE

$xml = simple_xml_file( 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/arabic/news/rss.xml' ) ;

so now we have the file loaded into a new Object called $xml

then we will loop through the file to get the values of the targeted elements

CODE

foreach ($xml->item as $news)
{
echo $news->title . '
\n\r';
}

there is simpler than that ?!

posted by Ahmed Shreef @ 12:52 AM

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