Question

Can anybody suggest a good and stable class to encode and decode XML in PHP?

edit

found this example on php.net, but can’t make it work.. no error msgs is returned

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement();
$sxe->addAttribute('type', 'documentary');

$movie = $sxe->addChild('movie');
$movie->addChild('title', 'PHP2: More Parser Stories');
$movie->addChild('plot', 'This is all about the people who make it work.');

$characters = $movie->addChild('characters');
$character  = $characters->addChild('character');
$character->addChild('name', 'Mr. Parser');
$character->addChild('actor', 'John Doe');

$rating = $movie->addChild('rating', '5');
$rating->addAttribute('type', 'stars');

echo $sxe->asXML();

Answer 1

SimpleXML would probably be the easiest. Example:

<root>
   <node>
      <sub>Text</sub>
   </node>
</root>

 

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('xml_file.xml', 0, true);
echo $xml->node->sub; // Displays "Text"

Edit:

In response to your code that isn’t working, you need to include a root node in the initiation of the class:

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement('<root />');