Parsing XML data using php to put into mysql database

Question

I have been asked to parse a simple file which is stored as an XML file, the data is to be then put into a mysql database.

However I have absolutely no clue what to

Answer 1

Assuming the file is called data.xml

$string = file_get_contents('data.xml') reads the entire file into $string.

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($string); parses that string, and converts it into an object tree similar to the actual document. So if that's the document -

  
    first
    second
  

The SimpleXMLElement object would be used like:

$xml->b              // gets all children of b (c[0] and c[1])
print $xml->b->c[0]  // gets the first c, will print "first"