How to display XML data in web page using PHP ?

In this article, we are going to display data present in an XML file on a web page using PHP through the XAMPP server. PHP is a server-side scripting language that is mainly for processing web data. The XML stands for an extensible markup language.

Requirements:

• XAMPP server

Syntax:

<root>
 <child>
 <subchild>.....</subchild>
 </child>
</root>

Approach: We are going to use mainly two functions in our PHP code. The simplexml_load_file() function is used to convert an XML document to an object.

• simplexml_load_file

  simplexml_load_file(name of XML file)
  

• children(): The children() function finds the children of a specified node.

  $xml_data->children()
  

Steps to execute:

• Step 1: Start XAMPP server. 👁 Image
  
• Open notepad and type the following codes in xml_data.xml and code.php formats The xml_data.xml: Consider student XML data as an example.

• Step 3:The following is the code for code.php file.

• Step 4: Save these two files in xampp/htdocs/geek folder. The developer can use any other folder instead of geek folder.👁 Image
  

Output: Open your browser and type localhost/geek/code.php to see the output.

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