Question

So i have the following xml structure:

<Application>
        <Properties>
            <Property>
                <Name>blabla</Name>
                <Value>123</Value>
            </Property>
        </Properties>
</Application>

and i want to add another “Property” child with PHP.
an example could be:

<Application>
        <Properties>
            <Property>
                <Name>blabla</Name>
                <Value>123</Value>
                                <Name>example test</Name>
                <Value>another value</Value>
            </Property>
        </Properties>
</Application>

Here is my current php code:

<?php
    $xml = simplexml_load_file("Application.xml"); 

    $sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xml->asXML()); 

    $properties = $sxe->addChild("Property");
    $properties->addChild("Name", "namehere"); 
    $properties->addChild("Value", "random value here"); 

    $sxe->asXML("Application.xml");
?>

but it just adds it to the end of the xml. After </Application> and that is not what we want.

I want it to add it in the <Property> child.

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

You need to traverse inside the <Application> tag to the <Properties> tag.

Use xpath().

$propNode = $sxe->xpath('/Application/Properties');
$property = $propNode[0]->addChild('Property');

Here’s the phpfiddle