Question

I need to load xml files and store them into a database. I’m using Symfony 2.1 as a framework and this framweork comes with a great tool – the crawler. It makes using XPATH easy.

How do I load XML files using this crawler?

Have you any a good tutorial showing how to do that?

Answer 1

Have you tried this?

$document = new \DOMDocument();
$document->loadXml(file_get_contents('my_file.xml'));

$crawler = new Crawler();
$crawler->addDocument($document);

or this?

$crawler = new Crawler();
$crawler->addXmlContent(file_get_contents('my_file.xml'));

Read more on DomCrawler component and how to load content into it: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dom_crawler.html#adding-the-content