simplexml

I'm new to PHP and this may be a stupid question to ask, so don't vote me down just because I don't understand something... php -r "print_r(simplexml_load_file('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/31139114.rss'));" let's take this for an example, by running this command i get (on screen) XML output. my question is it possible to save this data instead of just screen but in a file and then read that file and have exact same as if you've have made that simplexml_load_file() You can download the data, using something like file_get_contents ; it'll get you the whole XML in a single PHP

This question already has an answer here: SimpleXML: Selecting Elements Which Have A Certain Attribute Value 2 answers <path> <name> <option id="6523"> <needle>Haystack</needle> <foo>bar</foo> </option> <option id="6524"> <needle>Haystack</needle> <foo>Bar</foo> </option> </name> </path> Hello again Stackoverflow! For example, i want the Needle and the foo from option 6524, how do i get those using SimpleXML? I've tried xpath (almoast every topic here on stackoverflow suggests xpath) but that didn't work out for me! Can you guys help me? Thanks! Try this code: $xml_str = '.....'; $xml =

Before I begin, I know there are a bunch of questions similar to this, but trust me, I read all, if not most of them. I tried a bunch of solutions, but none of them seem to work. I'm getting a blank "tree" as my result. Here is the code that I am using. $jSON = json_decode('array here'); function array2xml($array, $xml = false){ if($xml === false){ $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<result/>'); } foreach($array as $key => $value){ if(is_array($value)){ array2xml($value, $xml->addChild($key)); } else { $xml->addChild($key, $value); } } return $xml->asXML(); } Here is the jSON array that I'm using.

I am writing a proxy service for caching the queries that my mobile app makes to webservice. (like a man in the middle) The task of proxy site I have built is pass the query it gets from the app onto third party webservice and save the response from the third party webservice as an XML file and for all subsequent calls for the same query read from the XML file and provide the response (basically caching the response -using Php, curl and simplexml_load_file). Now my question is - What is the recommended way to read an xml file and return the string. option 1: $contents = file_get_contents(