XML Parsing Made Easy

I am going to give you the code required to parse XML easily
usingone file.Just copy and paste the code and customize it
accordinglyAny doubts feel free to contact me.

The first file is the XML file

parse.xml

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<rss version=”2.0″>
<channel>
<title>Tutorialz Images</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<image>
<url>102724_31082007.jpg</url>
<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk</link>
<description/>

</image>

<image>
<url>369877_31082007.jpg</url>
<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22562/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>898438_0312080814461mira5abcjpg.jpg</url>

<title> </title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22560/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>211000_withkids.jpg</url>
<title>rahul and gokul
</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22469/userid/3</link>
<description/>

</image>

<image>
<url>180625_cycle.jpg</url>
<title>
</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22467/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>368384_mission.jpg</url>

<title>The mission begins…
</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22465/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>370625_04082007.jpg</url>
<title>
</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22350/userid/3</link>
<description/>

</image>

<image>
<url>292629_06082007744.jpg</url>
<title>
</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22330/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>22314</url>

<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22314/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>22313</url>
<title>comfort inn attham</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22313/userid/3</link>
<description/>

</image>

<image>
<url>22295</url>
<title>dial 100 if you see any of these person</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22295/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>811298_30072007676.jpg</url>

<title>
</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22200/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>974623_dog.jpg</url>
<title>
</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22179/userid/3</link>
<description/>

</image>

<image>
<url>270873_15082007.jpg</url>
<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22103/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>22102</url>

<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22102/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>22101</url>
<title>kenney</title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22101/userid/3</link>
<description/>

</image>

<image>
<url>22100</url>
<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22100/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>22099</url>

<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22099/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

<image>
<url>22098</url>
<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22098/userid/3</link>
<description/>

</image>

<image>
<url>22097</url>
<title></title>
<link>http://www.tutorialz.tk/22097/userid/3</link>
<description/>
</image>

</channel>
</rss>

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the second one is the PHP fileparse.php<?phpclass RSSParser{

var $url;

# (string) - URL of feed

var $page;

# (string) - Raw file contents of RSS Feed

var $xml;

# (object) - Object data of RSS Feed

var $channel;

# (object) - Channel Object containing feed information and images

var $images;

# (array) - RSS images

var $feed;

# (array) - Feed Information ( title, desc, publish date )

/*

Class Constrictor

Arguements:

url: Feed URL, can be a local file, or online ( http:// )

- url is required in order to execute the constrictor

*/

function __construct ( $url )

{

/*

Do we have PHP5 Installed?

If we do not have it installed,

Kill the script immediately.

*/

if ( intval( phpversion() ) < 5 )

{

die ( ‘PHP5 is required to execute this class.’ );

}

/*

Does the extention class exist?

Since it is an internal class

Compiled into PHP5, we can check

Whether it is installed or not.

*/

else if ( !class_exists ( ‘SimpleXMLElement’ ) )

{

die ( ‘Please re-compile PHP5 with the simpleXmlElement extention.’ );

}

// Set the URL of the feed internally.

$this->setRSS ( $url );

// Get the page contents of that feed.

$this->getRSS ();

// Parse RSS information

$this->parseRSS ();

}

/*

Function: setRSS

Arguements:

url - RSS Feed url which is set interally

- url is required to run this function

*/

function setRSS ( $url )

{

$this->url = $url;

}

/*

Function getRSS

- Get the feed source of the rss feed

*/

function getRSS ()

{

$this->feed = file_get_contents ( $this->url )

or die ( ‘RSS feed was not found’ );

}

/*

Function: parseRSS

- Parses the rss source

- Places feed images in array: $this->images

- Places feed details in array: $this->feed

*/

function parseRSS ()

{

// Since the extention is loaded, lets create a new

// instance of this class.

$this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement ( $this->feed );

// The XML Object has another child called channel.

// It holds the RSS details as well as images

$this->channel = $this->xml->channel;

// Lets set the feed details

// - Information about the RSS Feed

$this->feed = array

(

‘title’ => $this->clean ( $this->channel->title ),

‘description’ => $this->clean ( $this->channel->description ),

‘link’ => $this->clean ( $this->channel->link ),

‘date’ => $this->clean ( $this->channel->pubDate ),

‘image’ => ( $this->channel->image->url ) ? $this->clean ( $this->channel->image->url ) : false,

);

// Checks if we have any images present.

// Yes, it is possible that a feed is empty =/

if ( is_object ( $this->channel->image ) && count( $this->channel->image ) )

{

// Lets loop through all the <image> objects

foreach ( $this->channel->image as $image )

{

// Add an image to the array
//$i=1;

$this->images[] = array

(

‘title’ => $this->clean ( $image->title ),

‘link’ => $this->clean ( $image->link ),

‘description’ => $this->clean ( $image->description ),

‘category’ => $this->clean ( $image->category ),

‘url’ => $this->clean ( $image->url),

);

}

}

}

/*

Function clean

Argueuemts:

i - string in which to clean.

Cleans off the object tag from an object variable.

*/

function clean ( $i )

{

return (string) htmlspecialchars ( html_entity_decode ( $i ) );

}

}

$RSSParser = new RSSParser ( ‘parse.xml’ );

echo ‘Thank You,You are successful in parsing XML.<br><b>The parsed XML is:-</b> <pre>’;

print_r( $RSSParser->feed );

print_r( $RSSParser->images );

?>

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I have tested this and the script is working fine….If u are expericed OOP programmer you can easily customize the script.Thax

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