PHP and XML: Using the expat functions Page 5

How do you use this class in a PHP script ?
It’s very simple actually.
Here is an example:

First the class definition needs to be included in the script:

require (CLASS_DIR.”class.Newsboy.php”);

Then, we create an instance of the class and set the file property to the actual location of our XML document:

$news = new newsboy();
$news->xml_file = “xml/mynews.xml”;

Or:

$news->xml_file = “http://xmldocs.mysite.com/mynews.xml”

Then we call the parse method to parse the document:

$news->parse();

Then we print out the html to the browser:

print ($news->html);

And, lastly when done with the object we must destroy it:

$news->destroy();

And that’s really all there is to it !!!