PHP XML append to created file

Question

I have the following XML documment:

<list>
  <person>
     <name>Simple name</name>
  </person>
</list>

I try to read it, and basically create another "person" element. The output I want to achieve is:

<list>
  <person>
     <name>Simple name</name>
  </person>
  <person>
     <name>Simple name again</name>
  </person>
</list>

Here is how I am doing it:

$xml = new DOMDocument();
$xml->load('../test.xml');
$list = $xml->getElementsByTagName('list') ;

if ($list->length > 0) {
    $person = $xml->createElement("person");

    $name = $xml->createElement("name");        
    $name->nodeValue = 'Simple name again';

    $person->appendChild($name);
    $list->appendChild($person);
}

$xml->save("../test.xml");

What I am missing here?

Edit: I have translated the tags, so that example would be clearer.

Kevin · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-05 09:08:11Z

1

Currently, you're pointing/appending to the node list instead of that found parent node:

$list->appendChild($person);
// ^ DOMNodeList

You should point to the element:

$list->item(0)->appendChild($person);

Sidenote: The text can already put inside the second argument of ->createElement():

$name = $xml->createElement("name", 'Simple name again');

edited May 5, 2015 at 9:08

answered May 5, 2015 at 8:59

Kevin

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2 Comments

Kevin Over a year ago

@user2917823 yeah, i got confused also on your revision, i also made the changes accordingly, glad this helped

user2917823 Over a year ago

Thanx for the text hint! Really helpful!

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