Question

I dont seem to quite understand how xml_parse works. What i was doing was getting the contents of the xml file, create a parser, and pass it into xml_parse(). I dont know what to do after that. I was thinking that in my case, $xml was the array i can now iterate through. I was trying to see how i would parse my data.

    $fp = file_get_contents("memberdata.xml");
echo "pre-create";
$xml = xml_parser_create();
echo "pre-parse";
$status = xml_parse($xml,$fp);

if(!$status){
    die("Error parsing data from $fp into $xml");
}
echo "pre XML posting";
echo "<br />".$xml."<br />";
print_r($xml);
xml_parser_free($xml);

I cant seem to figure out how to access this.

Sample xml data is as follows:

<currentTime>2012-09-05 03:43:25</currentTime>
<result>
  <rowset name="members" key="characterID" columns="characterID,name,startDateTime,baseID,base,title,logonDateTime,logoffDateTime,locationID,location,shipTypeID,shipType,roles,grantableRoles">
    <row ..>
  </rowset>
</result>
<cachedUntil></cashedUntil>

Answer 1

Instead of using the base tools, using one of the toolkits, SimpleXML will alleviate a lot of the frustrations. The answer to this question is redone using SimpleXML.

    $fp = file_get_contents("memberdata.xml");
$eve = new SimpleXMLElement($fp);

$cols = $eve->{'result'}->rowset['columns'];
//I put result in {} because result is a special character in php.
$cols = explode(",",$cols);
foreach ($cols as $c){
    echo "".$c."<br />";
}
    //output is printed to screen

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