<?php
// handles the attributes for opening tags
// $attrs is a multidimensional array keyed by attribute
// name and having the value of that attribute
function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs=''){
global $open_tags, $temp, $current_tag;
$current_tag = $name;
if ($format = $open_tags[$name]){
switch($name){
case 'STORY':
echo 'New Story: ';
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}
// $current_tag lets us know what tag we are currently
// dealing with - we use that later in the characterData
// function.
//
// when we see a </STORY> we know that it is time to
// flush our temp variables and prepare to move onto
// the next one
function endElement($parser, $name, $attrs=''){
global $close_tags, $temp, $current_tag;
if ($format = $close_tags[$name]){
switch($name){
case 'STORY':
return_page($temp);
$temp = '';
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}
// this function is passed data between elements
// theu $data would equal 'Title Here'
// in the line <TITLE>Title Here</TITLE>
function characterData($parser, $data){
global $current_tag, $temp, $catID;
switch($current_tag){
case 'TITLE':
$temp['title'] = $data;
$current_tag = '';
break;
case 'URL':
$temp['url'] = $data;
$current_tag = '';
break;
default:
break;
}
}
?>
As you can see so far XML parsing in PHP isn’t all that bad. Now for the
fun part – parsing the file! For that you will need the rest of the code, which is fairly simple.
fun part – parsing the file! For that you will need the rest of the code, which is fairly simple.
