Easy XML

Simplifies the PHP SimpleXMLElement() Class

Version 1.3.0

Example of use:

Reads a XML file (used as a template)

See example_1/example.php for more information

$xml = new EasyXML;

$xml->read(Array(
	'path' => 'breakfast-menu.xml'
));

Create a new XML (without a template)

See example_2/example.php for more information

$xml = new EasyXML;

$xml->start(Array(
	"xml" => "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-15\"?><documents></documents>"
));

Working with EasyXML properties

The object's property 'content' has all the content of the started or read XML See example_1/example.php for more information

var_dump($xml->content);

Direct Access to a node content See example_1/example.php for more information

var_dump($xml->content->header);

Changes a node content See example_3/example.php for more information

$xml->content->header->title = "It's an information";

Direct Access to a attribute in a sibling node (second node) See example_3/example.php for more information

var_dump($xml->content->node[1]['id']);

Show all attributes from a node See example_3/example.php for more information

var_dump($xml->content->node->attributes());

SPECIAL METHODS

This method inserts data protected by CDATA

$xml->cData(Array(
	'node' 		=> $xml->content->header->title,
	'content'	=> 'The title'
));

This method seeks for a pair attribute:value inside a node level The example below seeks for a ... inside ... and sends to $fields variable

$fields = $xml->seekAttribute(Array(
	"node" 		=> $xml->content->nodes->node,
	"attribute" => "id",
	"value" 	=> "new"
))->field;

See example_5/example.php for more information

The example below gets the previous structure ($fields) and seeks for a and print the content inside

echo $xml->seekAttribute(Array(
	"node" 		=> $fields,
	"attribute" => "id",
	"value" 	=> "tag"
))->content;

Saving files

You can save the content to a file if needed Just insert the path to generate the file. The method knows that the information is inside of $this->content object

$xml->write(Array(
	'path' => '../test/t.xml'
));

See example_4/example.php for more information If XML content can't be read, '$this->content' returns 'false' as boolean

Trick

Converting an 'IN MEMORY' XML string into a EasyXML object This method can be used when a XML under a .zip file has been read into the memory. The XML content actually is a string in memory. To convert string memory into a EasyXML object you can use:

$xml->start(Array(
	"xml" => $XML_StringContentInMemory
));

After this procedure you can read the EasyXML object by

var_dump($xml->content);