How to manipulate xml file in php

[Alvinwind]

Hi guys,

Do u know how to retrieve information from an XML file and then make some manipulations on it like adding new elements into the XML file?

Thank you in advance.

[CornedBee]

Choose one:
PHP 4, DOM
PHP 5, DOM
PHP 5, custom (object-oriented)
PHP 4/5, SAX
PHP 4, XSLT
PHP 5, XSLT

[Alvinwind]

Hi CornedBee,

Thank you for your reply.

My PHP version is 4.3.4, so i must use PHP 4 DOM. But I don't know how to enable php_domxml.dll inside of php.ini . Do you mind to teach me?

[visualAd]

There is a section in the php.ini for called [extensions]. Disabled extensions have a ; character at the beginning of the line, enabled ones do not. So all you need to do is find the XML extension and remove the ; character to enbable it.

[Alvinwind]

Hi visualAd,

I have tried this method to enable php_domxml.dll inside of php.ini in both
[1] C:\php\php.ini-recommended, and
[2] C:\WINDOWS\php.ini

but i still can't manipulate the XML file. The php still can't identify those functions. I don't know what should I do in order to get it works.

[visualAd]

Try creating a php info file. To do this make a PHP script called phpinfo.php and put this line in it:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Check the path of the PHP.ini it is using and check to see if the XML extension has been loaded. If not you need to make sure the php_domxml.dll extists in your extensions directory.