Resources for using XML API and PHP and MySQL site

Hi All,

I have worked with PHP and MySQL sites and now want to build a site using PHP and MySQL but that pulls content from a 3rd Party using an XML API WebService... now I understand the theory etc of XML but have never worked with it. Any suggestions on useful resources to help me build a site that interacts with this 3rd party by the Web Service they offer?

Many thanks.

Chris

 

Hello,
This can be a good starting point for xml using php.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-xmldomphp

 

Look at http://php.net/manual/en/book.xml.php

 

If you're just retrieving and parsing an xml file, I would start with simplexml. It's a lot easier to work with than the other xml functions in php.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php

and

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-string.php

You can load the xml and then access it like you would an object/array. Use print_r after you load the xml and it should be fairly easy to understand how to use it.