PHP Tutorial - PHP xml_parse_into_struct() Function

The xml_parse_into_struct() function parses XML data into an array.

This function parses the XML data into 2 arrays:

Value array - containing the data from the parsed XML
Index array - containing pointers to the location of the values in the Value array

Syntax

PHP xml_parse_into_struct() Function has the following syntax.

xml_parse_into_struct(parser,xml,value_arr,index_arr)

Parameter

Parameter	Is Required	Description
parser	Required.	XML parser to use
xml	Required.	XML data to parse
value_arr	Required.	Target array for the XML data
index_arr	Optional.	Target array for index data

Return

This function returns 1 on success, or 0 on failure.

Example

XML File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<books>
  <name>PHP</name>
  <name>Java</name>
</books>

parses XML data into an array


<?php//  w w w  .  j a va  2  s .  c o m
$xmlparser = xml_parser_create();

$fp = fopen('test.xml', 'r');
$xmldata = fread($fp, 1024);

xml_parse_into_struct($xmlparser,$xmldata,$values);

xml_parser_free($xmlparser);
print_r($values);
?>