Reading and writing XML files with PHP_PHP tutorial

PHP can easily generate and read XML files. PHP mainly completes XML reading and writing operations through DOMDocument, DOMElement and DOMNodeList. Below is a brief explanation of how to use these classes.

1. Generate XML file
For an XML file as follows.

[html]

http://blog.csdn.net/morewindows/article/details/7102362

http://blog.csdn.net/morewindows/article/details/7102362

Let’s see how to generate it using PHP:

First create a new DOMDocument object and set the encoding format.

$dom = newDOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');

$dom->formatOutput= true;

Create the

node and the

$rootelement =$dom->createElement("article");

$title =$dom->createElement("title", "PHP Access MySql Database - Elementary");

Then create a node with text content

$link =$dom->createElement("link","http://blog.csdn.net/morewindows/article/details/7102362");

You can also generate a node first and then add text content to it.

$link = $dom->createElement("link");

$linktext =$dom->createTextNode('http://blog.csdn.net/morewindows/article/details/7102362');

$link->appendChild($linktext);

Then add the