By Andrew Sirianni 
This script is a simple way of reading an XML file (or XML web address) and parsing it with PHP into an object. In this way you can then easily read the data within the XML and use it in a web application.
SimpleXML is the command to read the XML and put it into a PHP object. Here is an example:
Sample XML:
<people>
<person>
<fname>Andrew</fname>
<sname>Sirianni</sname>
</person>
<person>
<fname>John</fname>
<sname>Smith</sname>
</person>
...
</people>
Convert the XML to an object:
<?php
$people = simplexml_load_file('people.xml');
?>
Then to access the data, you simply refer to the object in the following way:
<?php
echo $people->person[0]->fname;
# Would output "Andrew"
?>
And that's it! Now you can access elements of the XML file through the PHP object.
Enjoy! And please share your comments!
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