How to read xml using php

Many new PHP developer looking for how to easily read the xml file. In this tutorial I will show you how to read the xml file using PHP language. Here I given the sample code for parsing the XML using PHP.

How to read xml using php

This is my xml file format and file name is readxml.xml file

01<?xml version="1.0"?>
02 
03<!-- our XML-document describes a purchase order -->
04<purchase-order>
05 
06 <date>2005-10-31</date>
07 <number>12345</number>
08 
09 <purchased-by>
10 <name>My name</name>
11 <address>My address</address>
12 </purchased-by>
13 
14 <!-- a collection element, contains a set of items -->
15 <order-items>
16 
17 <item>
18 <code>687</code>
19 <type>CD</type>
20 <label>Some music</label>
21 </item>
22 
23 <item>
24 <code>129851</code>
25 <type>DVD</type>
26 <label>Some video</label>
27 </item>
28 
29 </order-items>
30 
31</purchase-order>

This is one php file called test.php and code as follows

01<?php
02 //create new document object
03 $dom_object = new DOMDocument();
04 //load xml file
05 $dom_object->load("test.xml");
06 
07 $item = $dom_object->getElementsByTagName("item");
08 
09 foreach( $item as $value )
10 {
11 $codes = $value->getElementsByTagName("code");
12 $code  = $codes->item(0)->nodeValue;
13 
14 $types = $value->getElementsByTagName("type");
15 $type  = $types->item(0)->nodeValue;
16 
17 $labels = $value->getElementsByTagName("label");
18 $label  = $labels->item(0)->nodeValue;
19 
20 echo "$code - $type - $label <br>";
21 }
22?>

When you run the readxml.php file. you will see the following output.

687 – CD – Some music
129851 – DVD – Some video

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How Can I get XML information from an specific URL with variables, I am working in my travel agency web page and my wholesaler provider give me the catalog in a xml url source and I am doing the web page in WordPress.. Can you help me?

Cannot thank you enough for this!!!
This saved me an untold amount of time!
You rock!