More reference: http://www.sitepoint.com/parsing-xml-with-simplexml/
Given the XML:
<Calendar>
<Account>
<Name>Sample Account Name</Name>
<Client>Test User</Client>
</Account>
<CalendarDates>
<CalendarDate>
<Date>2014-03-01</Date>
<Events>
<Event>
<Name>Event Number One</Name>
<StartingAt>2014-03-01T09:30:00</StartingAt>
<Categories>General</Categories>
</Event>
<Event>
<Name>Another Event</Name>
<StartingAt>2014-03-01T09:30:00</StartingAt>
<Categories>Meeting</Categories>
</Event>
<Event>
<Name>Hockey Game</Name>
<StartingAt>2014-03-01T10:00:00</StartingAt>
<Categories>Sports</Categories>
</Event>
</Events>
</CalendarDate>
</CalendarDates>
</Calendar>
Perhaps this was entered into a textarea on a form and we have read it it into a variable. We can access the various data nodes using SimpleXML:
$oXML = new SimpleXMLElement($_POST['textarea_name']); // comes from our fictitious form
// We obtain the general account info (Name, Client) using
$AccountNode = $oXML->Account;
// This accesses the Calendar Dates Node.
$DatesNode = $oXML->CalendarDates;
echo '<ul>';
foreach($DatesNode->CalendarDate as $date){
foreach($EventsNode->Event as $event){
echo '<li>';
echo date("g:i A",strtotime($event->StartingAt)) . "<br>";
echo $event->Name . "<br>";
echo $even->Categories;
echo '</li>';
}
}
echo '</ul>';
But what if we have to get the XML from somewhere else?
$durl = 'http://somelink.com/calendars/calendarname.xml'; $sXML = download_page($durl); $oXML = new SimpleXMLElement($sXML);


