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By: markaid

markaid — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:40:18 +0000

never knew php could work xml this way. great tut. thanks!

By: Sham Sehgal

Sham Sehgal — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:05:20 +0000

Really nice article.. thanks

By: Macoi

Macoi — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:50:26 +0000

Hello!! thank you! i have been looking for something like this for 2 days. haha.. keep it up. good job.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:09:39 +0000

(same as above… now with scape char)
simple question
SimpleXML can do this?: Text
I can only do: text

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:13:37 +0000

I don’t usually leave comments but I think this tutorial is well worth it.

Thank you

By: Kosta Kontos

Kosta Kontos — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:17:58 +0000

This is an excellent tutorial. Not only is it easy to read and understand, but your layout and attention to detail is superb. Thanks for the effort.

By: Pup

Pup — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:19:18 +0000

Character entities references aren’t necessary in UTF-8.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:32:21 +0000

Nice tutorial. Though I would have found Part II useful, I’m searching for an example of writing xml with namespaces using simplexml. Don’t know why I’m being so lazy looking for a tutorial though, I’ll just check the reference!
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-element-addChild.php

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:32:33 +0000

Good question, Cosmic. I've been lazy recently. I will have the part two of this and the mysqli tutorial this week.

By: Cosmic R

Cosmic R — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:22:00 +0000

Nearly a year later, what happened to part 2??????

By: Julien

Julien — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:36:40 +0000

Hello, and thank you for the tutorial!

I am learning PHP so maybe this is a dumb question, but when i write a XML file, how can i make it indented?
I know with .NET its done setting up a property but how can i do this here?

thanks a lot and keep up the good work!

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:52:52 +0000

Any training I do now, John is typically electronic (new media). I don’t have anything scheduled with any vendors right now, but that is subject to change on a month-to-month basis, and I will keep you posted.

As for the RSS and web services, I will try to address those this week.

By: John Richardson

John Richardson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:38:18 +0000

Stacy Mitchell and I enjoyed this tutorial alot! Would it be possible to show us how to create a RSS feed using web services and PHP (or .NET if you prefer)? Also, do you still teach classes nearby? I seem to remember hearing from Ellen Jones that you did…

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By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:22:51 +0000

Good catch, Carlton. I have made the typo correction.

I will post some articles regarding the Zend Certification Exam next week.

By: Carlton Dickson

Carlton Dickson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:50:25 +0000

Thanks for a great article…just studying for the ZCE so this will come in handy for the XML section.
Have added your blog to my PHP RSS feeds too….great design and content.

p.s. In the section “There are four ways to get an instance of SimpleXMLElement:” you used simplexml_dom_import instead of simplexml_import_dom