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answered Apr 28 '23 00:00
You can read the data from an XML file using PHP by using the SimpleXML extension. Here's a basic example of how you can use SimpleXML to read data from an XML file:
// Load the XML file
$xml = simplexml_load_file('data.xml');
// Access the data
echo $xml->first_element->second_element;
In the example above, the simplexml_load_file() function is used to load the contents of the XML file into a SimpleXMLElement object. You can then access the data in the XML file by using object properties to navigate through the XML tree.
For example, if the XML file contains a list of products, you could loop through the products like this:
foreach ($xml->product as $product) {
echo $product->name . ': ' . $product->price . '<br>';
}
In this example, the foreach loop is used to iterate through each <product> element in the XML file. The name and price of each product are then displayed on the page.