Question

I am trying to parse XML using PHP DOM and then insert this data in MySQL tables, i am using the following code for this:

<?php
$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
$xmlDoc->load("testrtap11.xml");
mysql_select_db("zeeshan_database1", $con);

$x=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('RECORD');
$z=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('TITLE');
$w=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('PRIMARY_AUTHOR');
$y=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('JOURNAL_CONFERENCE');

for($i=0; $i<=$x->length-1; $i++)
{
    $sql="INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age) VALUES('$z->item($i)->nodeValue','$w->item($i)->nodeValue','$y->item($i)->nodeValue')";

    if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
    {
        die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
    }
    echo "1 record added";
}

mysql_close($con)
?>

The data being entered is not correct. i even tried storing my xml parse values in a variable and then using that variable to insert data, even that does not works. I used the variable like this:

for($i=0; $i<=$x->length-1; $i++)
{
    $zz=$z->item($i)->nodeValue);
    $ww=$w->item($i)->nodeValue);
    $yy=$y->item($i)->nodeValue);
    $sql="INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age) VALUES('$zz','$ww','$yy')";

    if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
    {
        die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
    }
    echo "1 record added";
}

My xml looks like this:

<RTAP>
  <RECORD>
     <TITLE>               </TITLE>
     <PRIMARY_AUTHOR>      </PRIMARY_AUTHOR>
     <JOURNAL_CONFERENCE>  </JOURNAL_CONFERENCE>
  </RECORD>
</RTAP>

Kindly help me, what should I do in this

Best
Zeeshan

Answer 1

Try something like this:

foreach ($xmlDoc->RECORD as $record)
{
    $sql = 'INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age) VALUES('
        . '"' . mysql_escape_string($record->TITLE->nodeValue) . '", '
        . '"' . mysql_escape_string($record->PRIMARY_AUTHOR->nodeValue) . '", '
        . '"' . mysql_escape_string($record->JOURNAL_CONFERENCE->nodeValue) . '")'

    if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
        die('Error: ' . mysql_error());

    echo "1 record added";
}

You don’t actually say what’s wrong with the data that’s inserted…