Question

I need to use xml as database in php. Till now i used mssql,mysql as database in php. Is it possible to do so?

Answer 1

Of course it is, it depends how you want it laid out though.

Although, XML isn’t technically a database.

If you were using a system that requires the use of user registration, you could have either an XML file per user, or an overall user XML file.

1 – User1.xml

<user>
    <username>User</username>
    <password>Pass</password>
</user>

2 – Users.xml

<user>
    <username>User1</username>
    <password>Pass</password>
</user>
<user>
    <username>User2</username>
    <password>Pass2</password>
</user>

These are some very simple methods that could be used.

Then in order to check if a user has logged in you would need to iterate through the nodes in the XML file(s) and check the details.