In this article, we are going to store data present in XML file into MySQL database using PHP in XAMPP server.
XML: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The design goals of XML focus on simplicity, generality, and usability across the Internet.
Example:
HTML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><datas> <data> <id>1</id> <name>sravan</name> </data> <data> <id>2</id> <name>Ojaswi</name> </data> <data> <id>3</id> <name>Rohith</name> </data></datas> |
Loading XML file: We will use simplexml_load_file() function to convert the well-formed XML document into the given file to an object.
Syntax:
SimpleXMLElement simplexml_load_file( string $filename,
string $class_name = "SimpleXMLElement",
int $options = 0, string $ns = "",
bool $is_prefix = FALSE )
Steps to Write and Execute code:
- Start XAMPP
- Identify number of attributes in xml file and create table in XAMPP. There are 4 attributes in XML file (input.xml is the file name). These are title, link. description, keywords. The database name is xmldata and table name is xml
Filename: input.xml
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><items> <item> <title>PHP DATABASE CONNECTION</title> <link> </link> <description> The collection of related data is called a database. XAMPP stands for cross-platform, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. It is among the simple light-weight local servers for website development. </description> <keywords>PHP, XAMPP</keywords> </item> <item> <title>Screen density and Terminologies</title> <link> </link> <description> Screen Density is a calculation of the proportion of display character positions on the screen or an area of the screen containing something. </description> <keywords>software engineering</keywords> </item> <item> <title>DataProcessing vs DataCleaning</title> <link> </link> <description> Data Processing: It is defined as Collection, manipulation, and processing of collected data for the required use. It is a task of converting data from a given form to a much more usable and desired form i.e. making it more meaningful and informative. Using Machine Learning algorithms, mathematical modelling and statistical knowledge, this entire process can be automated. This might seem to be simple but when it comes to really big organizations like Twitter, Facebook, Administrative bodies like Parliament, UNESCO and health sector </description> <keywords>Data Mining</keywords> </item> <item> <title>Predicting Air Quality Index</title> <link> </link> <description> AQI: The air quality index is an index for reporting air quality on a daily basis. In other words, it is a measure of how air pollution affects one’s health within a short time period. The AQI is calculated based on the average concentration of a particular pollutant measured over a standard time interval. Generally, the time interval is 24 hours for most pollutants, 8 hours for carbon monoxide and ozone. </description> <keywords>Machine Learning, Python</keywords> </item></items> |
Filename: index.php
PHP
<?php// Connect to database// Server - localhost// Username - root// Password - empty// Database name = xmldata$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "xmldata");$affectedRow = 0;// Load xml file else check connection$xml = simplexml_load_file("input.xml") or die("Error: Cannot create object");// Assign valuesforeach ($xml->children() as $row) { $title = $row->title; $link = $row->link; $description = $row->description; $keywords = $row->keywords; // SQL query to insert data into xml table $sql = "INSERT INTO xml(title, link, description, keywords) VALUES ('" . $title . "','" . $link . "','" . $description . "','" . $keywords . "')"; $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql); if (! empty($result)) { $affectedRow ++; } else { $error_message = mysqli_error($conn) . "\n"; }}?><center><h2>GEEKS GOR GEEKS</h2></center><center><h1>XML Data storing in Database</h1></center><?phpif ($affectedRow > 0) { $message = $affectedRow . " records inserted";} else { $message = "No records inserted";}?><style> body { max-width:550px; font-family: Arial; } .affected-row { background: #cae4ca; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: #bdd6bd 1px solid; border-radius: 2px; color: #6e716e; } .error-message { background: #eac0c0; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: #dab2b2 1px solid; border-radius: 2px; color: #5d5b5b; }</style><div class="affected-row"> <?php echo $message; ?></div><?php if (! empty($error_message)) { ?><div class="error-message"> <?php echo nl2br($error_message); ?></div><?php } ?> |
Execution steps:
1. Save 2 files in one folder in path: xampp/htdocs/gfg
2. Type localhost/gfg/index.php and see the output
output
Now check the data in xml stored in our database or not
