Who is good at parsing XML files using PHP?

Question

For some reason I seriously cannot figure it out. If you know some site where I can learn how to heavily parse XML files with PHP, then that would be good enough. This isn't just simple RSS or anything. This is very complex, multi-layered XML. I am using this for something that's just like Blogger and Xanga, where someone could make blogs. The XML is for themes in something like Blogger, where you would enter <$someVariableName$>, but mine is in completely XML. Some thing like

another post: at $time by $who

$posttext

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If you would like to help me out by maybe even doing all of the source code for parsing the XML, I would really appreciate it, and I will definitely have a link to your site or whatever if you like. For more info just send me a message in my profile for yahoo answers or email me at sharkbaitbobby (((AT))) gmail (((dot))) com.

Answer 1

You have entered a new world, be prepared!

is the data stored in xml files?.. I guess no, probably a database.
You want to generate xml... OK... good idea. you're php skills should allow you to do that.

parsing xml is no big deal... you just have to find the right lib. don't bother trying to do it all by yourself.

if the data is in xml, and the templates can be written in xml. then the language for you is xsl.

do something!

Answer 2

hi mate

I'm not very skilled in php, but Ive been fighting the same issue lately, trying to make some dynamical flash stuff work.
It helped me a lot looking here: http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/04/29/xmlWriter

Although the stuff your doing isn't flash, there are some nice tutorials about php and XML at: http://kirupa.com/

Answer 3

I've onlyb een doing PHP for almost a year so I don't know everything, but shouldn't preg functions be enough? Anyways look through IPB source code and find the BBC code coding, and see how it was done.
To the guy below me.. What are you going on about flash for?