Display XML in PHP

paddya · 22 Jan 2007 at 11:53

I have an XML feed that I would like to display in my website PHP pages.

Can anyone help me with this please, I can't seem to find any resources that explain it in layman terms.

Thanks

JonD · 22 Jan 2007 at 12:00

http://uk2.php.net/xml

Augmented · 22 Jan 2007 at 12:11

PHP4 or PHP5? Manipulating XML in PHP is significantly easier in PHP5 thanks to SimpleXML.

If you don't wish to do the legwork of grabbing the XML feed, parsing the different elements out of it and then displaying them as formatted HTML (easy with SimpleXML), then look into a prebuilt app, such as Magpie, LastRSS or SimplePie.

Dj_Jestar · 22 Jan 2007 at 12:59

Or use XSLT.

paddya · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:32

ok thanks will try with that

paddya · 24 Jan 2007 at 11:04

ok just tried simplepie and tried the demo with my xml feed but it came back saying feed not found. Looked into lastrss and magpie but assuming that will be the same.

With simplexml, do I need something enabled on the server (which I don't have shell access too).

I have looked at xslt, but couldn't work out that either.

The feed I'm trying to format into HTML is

http://atilla.hinttech.nl:8080/fseconomy/xml?id=5186&key=IYASV3D7&query=groupLog&from=5&amount=10