How insert PHP array in XML? - php

Question

Hello to all i have a little problem, i have one array like this
$slike=array('1.jpg','2.jpg')
And another XML that looks like this
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>
</settings>
How to insert $slike in that XML, that new XML looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>
<image>1.jpg</image>
<image>2.jpg</image>
</settings>
Txanks in advance

Answer 1

No idea into which problem you did run, but it's rather trivial using an XML library, e.g. even with SimpleXML in your case:
$slike = array('1.jpg','2.jpg');
$name = 'image';
$doc = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
foreach($slike as $file) {
$doc->addChild($name, $file);
}
echo $doc->asXML();
The $xml in this example is the xml string from your question. Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>
<image>1.jpg</image><image>2.jpg</image></settings>

Answer 2

What about something like this:
header("Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8"); // added this line - that way the browser will render it as XML
$slike = array('1.jpg','2.jpg');
$xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>";
foreach($slike as $s){
$xml.= "<image>".$s."</image>"; // create a new <image> node for each image in array
}
$xml .= "</settings>";
print_r($xml);
Outputs this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<settings>
<show_context_menu>yes</show_context_menu>
<hide_buttons_delay>2</hide_buttons_delay>
<thumbs_width>200</thumbs_width>
<horizontal_space_btween_buttons>0</horizontal_space_btween_buttons>
<buttons_margins>0</buttons_margins>
<image>1.jpg</image>
<image>2.jpg</image>
</settings>

Answer 3

http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php
The syntax looks something like this for your example
<aaaa Version="1.0">
<bbb>
<cccc>
<dddd Id="id:pass" />
<eeee name="hearaman" age="24" />
</cccc>
</bbb>
</aaaa>
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlString);
echo $xml->bbb->cccc->dddd['Id'];
echo $xml->bbb->cccc->eeee['name'];
// or...........
foreach ($xml->bbb->cccc as $element) {
foreach($element as $key => $val) {
echo "{$key}: {$val}";
}
}