Question

here’s my task. I’ve parsed an xml document and stored all of its data in an array. The array format is

Array(
    [0]=> deals Object(
        [deal_id]=>... 
        [deal_title]=>...
    )
    [1]=> deals Object(
        [deal_id]=>....
        [deal_title]=>...
    )
)

what i need to do is to store values for each object in mysql database but not all of the object’s tags should be stored in the same datatable.
The reason why i first created the array is that the same php file will parse the xml and then will insert the values in the database OR if an entry with the same deal_id already exists in the database will update the appropriate tables. So I thought that having the xml in an array will help the further checking code.
If anyone has a different suggestion I’d be glad to hear..

Thanks in advance!!!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deals>
<deal>
<id>1</id>
<title>title</title>
<city>city<city>
<price>20</price>
<url>http://....</url>
<previous_price>30</previous_price>
<discount> 10</discount>
<image>http://....</image>
<description> description</description>
<purchases> 1</purchases>
<address>address</address>
<latitude>30.5666</latitude>
<longitude>403.6669</longitude>
<start>datetime</start>
<end>datetime</end>
<active>true</active>
<category>category</category>
<type>type</type>
</deal>
</deals>

that’s the xml file structure

Answer 1

This will do what you need:

foreach ($array as $deal) {
    $title = mysql_real_escape_string($deal['deal_title']);
    $id = int($deal['deal_id']);
    if ($id) {
        $query = "INSERT INTO deals (id, title) VALUES ($id, '$title') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE deals SET title = '$title' WHERE id = $id";
        mysql_query($query);
    } else {
        echo "ID is not a valid integer.";
    }
}