Description
object
simplexml_load_file ( string filename [, string class_name [, int options]] )
This function will convert the well-formed XML document in the file
specified by filename to an object
of class SimpleXMLElement. If any errors occur during file
access or interpretation, the function returns FALSE.
You may use the optional class_name parameter so
that simplexml_load_file() will return an object of
the specified class. That class should extend the
SimpleXMLElement class.
Since PHP 5.1.0 and Libxml 2.6.0, you may also use the
options parameter to specify additional Libxml parameters.
Note:
Libxml 2 unescapes the URI, so if you want to pass e.g.
b&c as the URI parameter a,
you have to call
simplexml_load_file(rawurlencode('http://example.com/?a=' .
urlencode('b&c'))). Since PHP 5.1.0 you don't need to do
this because PHP will do it for you.
Example 1. Interpret an XML document
<?php
// The file test.xml contains an XML document with a root element
// and at least an element /[root]/title.
if (file_exists('test.xml')) {
$xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml');
var_dump($xml);
} else {
exit('Failed to open test.xml.');
}
?>
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This script will display, on success:
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[title] => Example Title
...
) |
At this point, you can go about using $xml->title
and any other elements.
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See also: simplexml_load_string()
