Parsing Child Nodes with the DOM XML extension in PHP 5

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

In this last chapter of the series I m going to teach you how to handle the child nodes of an XML document by way of two simple methods called hasChildNode and removeChild respectively. So let s not waste any more time in preliminaries ...

Accessing Attributes and Cloning Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

You ve probably realized that the DOM XML library can be pretty useful when working with web documents. However this extension includes some other methods which can be utilized to parse attributes of a given XML string as well as to clone nodes. Thus considering that ...

Handling HTML Strings and Files with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The DOM XML extension has a few additional methods that can be used to process HTML files and strings at least at a pretty basic level. Thus this fifth part of the series will be entirely focused on explaining how to work with these methods. I will include ...

Working with Multiple Document Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Welcome to the fourth article of the series A quick overview of the DOM XML extension in PHP 5. By means of easy-to-grasp hands-on examples this series equips you with a friendly guide to using the most relevant methods that come bundled with the DOM XML PHP ...

Inserting Comments and Accessing Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Welcome to the third chapter of the series A quick overview of the DOM XML extension in PHP 5. As the article s title suggests this series walks you through using the most relevant methods that come packaged with this powerful XML-related PHP extension to perform specific ...

Working with Attributes and CDATA Sections with the DOM XML Extension

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Undeniably one of the most remarkable strengths of PHP is its robust set of extensions. They provide developers with the right tools to build a huge variety of web applications with minor hassles. And this characteristic is particularly evident when it comes to working with XML documents since ...

A Quick Overview of the XML DOM Extension in PHP 5

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

To be frank how many times in your life as a PHP developer have you had to deal with XML documents Probably dozens of times particularly if you use it to develop PHP applications that implement some kind of web service or possibly when creating RSS ...