Question

I am attempting to make a website that will load a certain menu.xml doc, that was sent to it using a foreach loop. The foreach loop uses glob to grab all XML docs in a directory then prints the “name” attribute into a html link.

This has worked to up until the point were I need to pass the certain XML var used to make the link to another php doc that utilizes it.

I first attempted to use the $_SESSION to but could not as the loop would overwrite $_SESSION with each iteration. I also tried $_GET and $_POST, but I ran into the same problem with forms.

Here is my code (Please ignore any sloppyness, I am new to the PHP game):

foreach(glob("../menus/*xml") as $dom) //grabs each .xml doc in menus/
{
    $menu = simplexml_load_file($dom); //loads the file into $menu
    print "<li>";
    print "<a href = menu.php>{$menu["name"]}</a>"; //links to page menu.php
    print "</li>";
}

What I need this to do now, is to pass the individually loaded XML variable when the link is clicked.

How could I go about doing this?

Edit:

menu.xml is a page that displays the contents of the menu.xml.

Answer 1

Something like this?

<?php
foreach(glob("../menus/*xml") as $dom) //grabs each .xml doc in menus/
{
  $menu = simplexml_load_file($dom); //loads the file into $menu
?>
<li>
    <a href="menu.php?name=<?php echo $menu["name"] ?>><?php echo $menu["name"] ?></a>
</li>
<?php
}
?>

The variable will be set into $_GET['name'] when the page is loaded.