Parse simplexml into MYSQL - php

Question

I have an api, which I send to a database and the results are returned in an xml format, this works fine and i can output the results to the screen with no problem. The xml feed is along list of property details. What i am trying to do is store the results in a mysql database, using the code below.
$feeds = array('http://web.demo.net/ademo_search.xml? &upw=123456');
foreach( $feeds as $feed ) {
$xml = simplexml_load_file($feed);
foreach($xml->channel->item as $item)
{
mysql_query("INSERT INTO property1 (id, department, branch, address1)
VALUES (
'',
'".mysql_real_escape_string($item->id)."',
'".mysql_real_escape_string($item->department)."',
'".mysql_real_escape_string($item->branch)."',
'".mysql_real_escape_string($item->address1)."')");
}
}
When I run this code I don't get an errors, nor does the data get added to the database.
here is a link to the xml structure, as you will see for my test i am only trying to insert the first few items.

Answer 1

This is exactly what you need :)
I hope you like it
$feed = "test.xml";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($feed);
$arr = array();
$i = 0;
foreach($xml->houses->property as $item){
$arr[$i][] = (string) $item->id;
$arr[$i][] = (string) $item->department;
$arr[$i][] = (string) $item->branch;
$arr[$i][] = (string) $item->address->address1;
$i++;
}
var_dump($arr); // now you have them in an array .. store them in db ;)

Answer 2

first: in the feeds array, there are a few spaces, this might cause a problem parsing the url and return 404 error or something (not sure about that, but check it)
second: in the query, remove the '' because you have 4 columns with 5 variables passed to them
third: you might want to see MySQL error by adding or die(mysql_error()) after the query before the semicolon
fourth: consider replacing mysql with mysqli or PDO