How insert PHP array in XML?

Question

Hello to all i have a little problem, i have one array like this

$slike=array('1.jpg','2.jpg')

And another XML that looks like this

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>
</settings>

How to insert $slike in that XML, that new XML looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>
<image>1.jpg</image>
<image>2.jpg</image>
</settings>

Txanks in advance

Just what is your problem?

Arjan
– Arjan

2012-12-24 21:11:47 +00:00
Commented Dec 24, 2012 at 21:11 — Arjan
– Arjan, Commented Dec 24, 2012 at 21:11

hakre · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-24 22:24:11Z

1

No idea into which problem you did run, but it's rather trivial using an XML library, e.g. even with SimpleXML in your case:

$slike = array('1.jpg','2.jpg');
$name = 'image';

$doc = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
foreach($slike as $file) {
    $doc->addChild($name, $file);
}

echo $doc->asXML();

The $xml in this example is the xml string from your question. Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>
<image>1.jpg</image><image>2.jpg</image></settings>

answered Dec 24, 2012 at 22:24

hakre

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Tanja Pakovic Over a year ago

This is close to good, thanks, can you modified code a little more, because i have config_skin_round.xml in seperate file, and i need new xml to create to parsed into javascript

hakre Over a year ago

You mean you want to save it to file? You can do so as well with the SimpleXMLElement::asXML(); method, just provide the filename as string. Also you can load from a file with simplexml_load_file - does this help?

Tanja Pakovic Over a year ago

i dont want echo $doc->asXML; i want t save new galerija.xml

hakre Over a year ago

See the first argument of: asXML($filename_here); - see the link in my previous comment, the PHP manual describes in detail how that works. I couldn't do better.

Chris · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-24 21:39:55Z

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What about something like this:

header("Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");  // added this line - that way the browser will render it as XML
$slike = array('1.jpg','2.jpg');

$xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>";

foreach($slike as $s){
    $xml.= "<image>".$s."</image>"; // create a new <image> node for each image in array
}


$xml .= "</settings>";

print_r($xml);

Outputs this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<settings>
    <show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
    <hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
    <thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
    <horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
    <buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>
    <image>1.jpg</image>
    <image>2.jpg</image>
</settings>

edited Dec 24, 2012 at 21:39

answered Dec 24, 2012 at 21:16

Chris

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3 Comments

Tanja Pakovic Over a year ago

Interesting, you made a string from XML :) But what if the XMl is too long :))

Tanja Pakovic Over a year ago

I want to keep all in XML, not string :)

Chris Over a year ago

So you have an xml file that you want to add the array contents to... do you want to do this temporarily or permanently? The xml can be any length really and it will still work, will just slow down. What exactly are you trying to do - your post doesn't explain very well

Vishnu Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-25 11:29:34Z

0

http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php

The syntax looks something like this for your example

<aaaa Version="1.0">
   <bbb>
     <cccc>
       <dddd Id="id:pass" />
       <eeee name="hearaman" age="24" />
     </cccc>
   </bbb>
</aaaa>

 $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlString);
    echo $xml->bbb->cccc->dddd['Id'];
    echo $xml->bbb->cccc->eeee['name'];
    // or...........
    foreach ($xml->bbb->cccc as $element) {
      foreach($element as $key => $val) {
       echo "{$key}: {$val}";
      }
    }

answered Sep 25, 2013 at 11:29

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