I'm having a very difficult time parsing XML with PHP. Is there any toolkits or frameworks that would make working with XML easier? The XML file that I am working with is full of data for betting lines. I need to pull this data in and make a well formed grid of the odds, times of games, etc. If there was a way to pull in each xml element as a variable or maybe even an array with named key values that would help out alot. Thanks in advance.

PHP has being used by many people by the time of it's creation in and was named as PHP/FI which went all the way to it's 2nd stage, and then it was succeeded by PHP 3.0. Now people use the more modern PHP 5 with much more functions than the previous stages of PHP. Read the History of PHP To find out more of the history of PHP.

Originally Posted by panther786

PHP has being used by many people by the time of it's creation in and was named as PHP/FI which went all the way to it's 2nd stage, and then it was succeeded by PHP 3.0. Now people use the more modern PHP 5 with much more functions than the previous stages of PHP. Read the History of PHP To find out more of the history of PHP.

And in which way does this relate to the question ???

Dlaroche, I've mostly worked to output XML with PHP, but explain a bit more what you need to do, and how you do it until now and I'll try my best.

By the way, if you are using PHP4, stop...
PHP5 introduced new extensions for handling XML reading and writing, and as PHP4 is dead you better work on an PHP5 version.

I've mostly worked to output XML with PHP

OP - If you're using PHP5, I absolutely recommend the DomDocument class for parsing XML. If you're not using PHP5, you'll have to basically write your own SAX parser, which is a pain in the butt, to be completely honest.

For a great introduction to parsing in PHP5, see this site. If you really need to go the PHP4 route, I guess this is a good place to start.

I use phps simple xml




If you have :
Category -
Title -

Category -
Title -

etc....

PHP Code:

$xml_file = file_get_contents("http://yoursite.com/file.xml");
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_file);
foreach ($xml->Category as $cat) {
     $title = $cat->Title;
echo "The category for $title is $cat";
} 


Thats a very small and simplified example but if you lookup simple xml on the php.net website you'll find more detailed uses and many user submitted comments which are very helpful.