<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >simplexml_load_file</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SimpleXML functions" HREF="ref.simplexml.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="simplexml_import_dom" HREF="function.simplexml-import-dom.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="simplexml_load_string" HREF="function.simplexml-load-string.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.simplexml-import-dom.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.simplexml-load-string.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.simplexml-load-file" ></A >simplexml_load_file</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN103967" ></A ><P > (PHP 5)</P >simplexml_load_file -- Interprets an XML file into an object. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN103970" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >object simplexml_element <B CLASS="methodname" >simplexml_load_file</B > ( string filename)<BR ></BR ><P > This function will convert the well-formed XML document in the file specified by <VAR CLASS="parameter" >filename</VAR > to an <A HREF="language.types.object.html" ><B CLASS="type" >object</B ></A > of class <VAR CLASS="literal" >simplexml_element</VAR >. If any errors occur during file access or interpretation, the function returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN103984" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. Interpret an XML document</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /></font><font color="#FF8000">// The file test.xml contains an XML document with a root element<br />// and at least an element /[root]/title.<br /><br /></font><font color="#007700">if (</font><font color="#0000BB">file_exists</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'test.xml'</font><font color="#007700">)) {<br /> </font><font color="#0000BB">$xml </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">simplexml_load_file</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'test.xml'</font><font color="#007700">);<br /> <br /> </font><font color="#0000BB">var_dump</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$xml</font><font color="#007700">);<br />} else {<br /> exit(</font><font color="#DD0000">'Failed to open test.xml.'</font><font color="#007700">);<br />}<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > This script will display, on success: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >simplexml_element Object ( [title] => Example Title ... )</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > At this point, you can go about using <VAR CLASS="literal" >$xml->title</VAR > and any other elements. </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.simplexml-load-string.html" ><B CLASS="function" >simplexml_load_string()</B ></A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.simplexml-import-dom.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.simplexml-load-string.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >simplexml_import_dom</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.simplexml.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >simplexml_load_string</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >