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

$xml = simplexml_load_file($filename);
foreach($xml->product as $product) {            

  foreach($product->attributes() as $name => $attribute) {
    echo "$name = $attribute";
  }         
}