Question

I have a slight problem. I need to parse a file and populate a web banner with the results. Problem is, the file is called : “_banner_products.php” and it’s contents are as follows:

<?php header('Content-Type:text/xml'); ?><?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>
<carouselle>
 <firstLayer>
   <layerName>Leica Disto X310</layerName>
   <layerProduct>Disto X310</layerProduct>
   <layerPic>http://www.leicaestonia.ee/extensions/boxes_design/flashpics/1334482548.jpg</layerPic>
   <layerPrice>0,-</layerPrice>
   <layerPriceOld></layerPriceOld>
   <layerLink>http://www.leicaestonia.ee/index.php?id=11627</layerLink>
   <layerTimer>01.05.2012 00:00</layerTimer>
 </firstLayer>
 <firstLayer>
   .....
   .....
</firstLayer>
</carouselle>

How can I loop through this file to group all the “firstLayer” children into one and so on..
If I just use:

$file = fopen("_banner_products.php", "r");
while (!feof($file)){
    $line = fgets($file);
}

simplexml_load_file throws this-
“_banner_products.php:1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<‘ “

Then I only get the contents of the <…> tags meaning there is no way for me to differentiate if I am out of the scope already.

Thanks for anyone responding. If anything is unclear I´ll try to explain more.

EDIT.
Thank you for the solution, indeed using the full URL worked:

simplexml_load_file("http://localhost/MySite/_banner_products.php");

Answer 1

You are having issue because simplexml_load_file is treating your file like a local xml file .. what you need to do is add the full URL

Example

 simplexml_load_file("http://localhost/web/_banner_products.php"); 

Use Case getting layerName for example

_banner_products.php

<?php
header ( 'Content-Type:text/xml' );
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
?>
<carouselle>
 <firstLayer>
   <layerName>Leica Disto X310</layerName>
   <layerProduct>Disto X310</layerProduct>
   <layerPic>http://www.leicaestonia.ee/extensions/boxes_design/flashpics/1334482548.jpg</layerPic>
   <layerPrice>0,-</layerPrice>
   <layerPriceOld></layerPriceOld>
   <layerLink>http://www.leicaestonia.ee/index.php?id=11627</layerLink>
   <layerTimer>01.05.2012 00:00</layerTimer>
 </firstLayer>
 <firstLayer>
   <layerName>Leica Disto X310</layerName>
   <layerProduct>Disto X310</layerProduct>
   <layerPic>http://www.leicaestonia.ee/extensions/boxes_design/flashpics/1334482548.jpg</layerPic>
   <layerPrice>0,-</layerPrice>
   <layerPriceOld></layerPriceOld>
   <layerLink>http://www.leicaestonia.ee/index.php?id=11627</layerLink>
   <layerTimer>01.05.2012 00:00</layerTimer>
 </firstLayer>
</carouselle>

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$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://localhost/lab/stockoverflow/_banner_products.php");

echo "<pre>" ;
foreach($xml as $key => $element)
{
    echo $element->layerName , PHP_EOL ;
}