PHP XML adding new entry - php

Question

How do i edit a xml files and add a new entry at end of < / user > ?
My xml(filezilla) look like
<FileZillaServer>
<Users>
<User Name="test">
</User>
/* using php to add another users on here <User Name="test2" */
</Users>
</FileZillaServer>
Thank you for help.

Answer 1

You can use the DOMDocument classes to manipulate an XML document.
For instance, you could use something like this :
$str = <<<XML
<FileZillaServer>
<Users>
<User Name="test">
</User>
</Users>
</FileZillaServer>
XML;
$xml = DOMDocument::loadXML($str);
$users = $xml->getElementsByTagName('Users');
$newUser = $xml->createElement('User');
$newUser->setAttribute('name', 'test2');
$users->item($users->length - 1)->appendChild($newUser);
var_dump($xml->saveXML());
Which will get you :
string '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<FileZillaServer>
<Users>
<User Name="test">
</User>
<User name="test2"/></Users>
</FileZillaServer>
' (length=147)
i.e. you :
create a new User element
you set its name attribute
and you append that new element to Users
(There are probably other ways to do that, avoiding the usage of length ; but this is what I first thought about -- quite early in the morning ^^ )

Answer 2

Use SimpleXML. As the name implies, it's the simplest way to deal with XML documents.
$FileZillaServer = simplexml_load_string(
'<FileZillaServer>
<Users>
<User Name="test" />
</Users>
</FileZillaServer>'
);
$User = $FileZillaServer->Users->addChild('User');
$User['Name'] = 'Test2';
echo $FileZillaServer->asXML();