Updating XML with php ?

[AFB]

How can I do this with out rewiting the whole document ?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

... that's a bit vague.

 

[AFB]

I am parsing an XML document.

ie :
<library>
<book>
<name>123123863</name>
<title>Random Book title</title>
<description>Sucks</description>
</book>
<library>

How can I add another book or change a feild in this one ?

 

[oog]

write the whole file back out again. for the most part you can't just insert/delete/replace something in the middle of a file. you can add to the end easily enough, but that's about it.

 

[Czar]

phpbuilder.com

they have a xml parser somewhere that you can work with, basicly read the whole xml file into an array and then rewrite it to the xml file with the new info

 

[AFB]

So I have to rewite the whole file ? Dayum, that sucks. Anyone else know of a better way ? I was just planning to do it like you where saying, but using objects for each item.

 

[jonmullen]

There is no way to really get around haveing to rewrite the whole file. The way files work is you can either append like a log or buffer in and rewrite. Now its not like you are going to have to echo every line back to the file but if you need to add something to the middle the very basic process is read the file into memory print back all the file before where you are adding print back the new stuff, print back the rest of the file.