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->products->product as $not)
{
    foreach($not->attributes() as $a => $b)
    {
        echo $a,'="',$b,"\"
";
    }
}