SimpleXMLElement::addChild

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.3, PHP 7, PHP 8)

SimpleXMLElement::addChildFügt dem XML-Knoten ein Kind-Element hinzu

Beschreibung

public SimpleXMLElement::addChild(string $qualifiedName, ?string $value = null, ?string $namespace = null): ?SimpleXMLElement

Fügt ein Kind-Element an den Knoten und gibt ein SimpleXMLElement des Kindes zurück.

Parameter-Liste

qualifiedName

Der Name des hinzuzufügenden Kind-Elements.

value

Wenn angegeben, der Wert des Kind-Elements.

namespace

Wenn angegeben, der Namespace, zu dem das Kind-Element gehört.

Rückgabewerte

Die addChild-Methode gibt bei Erfolg ein SimpleXMLElement-Objekt zurück, das das zum XML-Knoten hinzugefügte Kind repräsentiert, oder false, falls ein Fehler auftrat.

Beispiele

Hinweis:

Die aufgeführten Beispiele binden möglicherweise example.php ein, das die XML-Zeichenkette enthält, die im ersten Beispiel über die grundlegende Verwendung zu finden ist.

Beispiel #1 Hinzufügen von Attributen und Kindern zu einem SimpleXML-Element

<?php

include 'example.php';

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
$sxe->addAttribute('type', 'documentary');

$movie = $sxe->addChild('movie');
$movie->addChild('title', 'PHP2: Noch mehr Parser-Geschichten');
$movie->addChild('plot', 'Alles ueber die Leute, die das Kind am Leben erhalten.');

$characters = $movie->addChild('characters');
$character = $characters->addChild('character');
$character->addChild('name', 'Mr. Parser');
$character->addChild('actor', 'John Doe');

$rating = $movie->addChild('rating', '5');
$rating->addAttribute('type', 'stars');

echo
$sxe->asXML();

?>

Das oben gezeigte Beispiel erzeugt eine ähnliche Ausgabe wie:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<movies type="documentary">
 <movie>
  <title>PHP: Behind the Parser</title>
  <characters>
   <character>
    <name>Ms. Coder</name>
    <actor>Onlivia Actora</actor>
   </character>
   <character>
    <name>Mr. Coder</name>
    <actor>El Act&#xD3;r</actor>
   </character>
  </characters>
  <plot>
   So, this language. It's like, a programming language. Or is it a
   scripting language? All is revealed in this thrilling horror spoof
   of a documentary.
  </plot>
  <great-lines>
   <line>PHP solves all my web problems</line>
  </great-lines>
  <rating type="thumbs">7</rating>
  <rating type="stars">5</rating>
 </movie>
 <movie>
  <title>PHP2: More Parser Stories</title>
  <plot>This is all about the people who make it work.</plot>
  <characters>
   <character>
    <name>Mr. Parser</name>
    <actor>John Doe</actor>
   </character>
  </characters>
  <rating type="stars">5</rating>
 </movie>
</movies>

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frosty dot z at freesbee dot fr
10 years ago
To complete Volker Grabsch's comment, stating :
"Note that although addChild() escapes "<" and ">", it does not escape the ampersand "&"."

To work around that problem, you can use direct property assignment such as :

<?php
$xmlelement
->value = 'my value < > &';
// results in <value>my value &lt; &gt; &amp;</value>
?>

instead of doing :

<?php
$xmlelement
->addChild('value', 'my value < > &');
// results in <value>my value &lt; &gt; &</value> (invalid XML)
?>

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/552957 (Rationale behind SimpleXMLElement's handling of text values in addChild and addAttribute)

HTH
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alex dot feraud at gmail dot com
12 years ago
Here is a class with more functions for SimpleXMLElement :

<?php
/**
*
* Extension for SimpleXMLElement
* @author Alexandre FERAUD
*
*/
class ExSimpleXMLElement extends SimpleXMLElement
{
   
/**
     * Add CDATA text in a node
     * @param string $cdata_text The CDATA value  to add
     */
 
private function addCData($cdata_text)
  {
  
$node= dom_import_simplexml($this);
  
$no = $node->ownerDocument;
  
$node->appendChild($no->createCDATASection($cdata_text));
  }

 
/**
   * Create a child with CDATA value
   * @param string $name The name of the child element to add.
   * @param string $cdata_text The CDATA value of the child element.
   */
   
public function addChildCData($name,$cdata_text)
    {
       
$child = $this->addChild($name);
       
$child->addCData($cdata_text);
    }

   
/**
     * Add SimpleXMLElement code into a SimpleXMLElement
     * @param SimpleXMLElement $append
     */
   
public function appendXML($append)
    {
        if (
$append) {
            if (
strlen(trim((string) $append))==0) {
               
$xml = $this->addChild($append->getName());
                foreach(
$append->children() as $child) {
                   
$xml->appendXML($child);
                }
            } else {
               
$xml = $this->addChild($append->getName(), (string) $append);
            }
            foreach(
$append->attributes() as $n => $v) {
               
$xml->addAttribute($n, $v);
            }
        }
    }
}
?>
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johninen at gmail dot com
8 years ago
In the docs for google sitemaps it is required an element for mobile sitemaps that looks like this: <mobile:mobile/>

I used some time to figure out how to make it, but it is quite simple when understood.

$mobile_schema = 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0';

//Create root element
$xml_mobile = new SimpleXMLElement('
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:mobile="'.$mobile_schema.'"></urlset>
');

//Add required children
$url_mobile = $xml_b_list_mobile->addChild('url');
$url_mobile->addChild('loc', 'your-mobile-site-url');
$url_mobile->addChild('mobile:mobile', null, $mobile_schema);

For this to work properly the attribute xmlns:mobile must be set in the root node, and then used as namespace(third argument) when creating the mobile:mobile child with null as value.
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nwarap
6 years ago
Want to continue the ampersand (&) chain problem.

Sometimes, you would want to assign  (=) addChild.
This trick will helps you to do this.

<?php
$webOrders
= new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0"?><WebOrders></WebOrders>');
$webOrder = $webOrders->addChild('WebOrder');
$product = $webOrder->addChild('Product');
$product[0] = 'T&M';
$product->addAttribute('price', 19.99);
$product->addAttribute('qty', 2);
var_dump($webOrders->asXML());
?>

OUTPUT would be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<WebOrders>
    <WebOrder>
        <Product price="19.99" qty="2">T&amp;M</Product>
    </WebOrder>
</WebOrders>
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Volker Grabsch
12 years ago
Note that although addChild() escapes "<" and ">", it does not escape the ampersand "&".

So addChild() is unsuited to handle user-defined input!

Instead, you will have to replace all "&" with "&amp;" before calling addChild().

Or, use htmlspecialchars() which also replaces other characters, but won't do any harm as addChild() won't replace those again.
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ivan dot kakurov at gmail dot com
11 years ago
Here's my solution for creating XML from Multidimensional Array.
<?php
//DATA
       
$xmlDAta = array(
            array(
               
"name"  => "nameVal",
               
"value" => "valVal",
               
"css"   => "cssVal"
           
),
            array(
               
"name"  => "name1Val",
               
"value" => "val1Val",
               
"css"   => "css1Val"
           
),
           
"tname" => array(
                array(
                   
"iTname"   => "iTname",
                   
"iTname2"  => "iTname1",
                   
"iTname2"  => "iTname2",
                   
"iTbname3" => array(
                       
"iiTbname"  => "tbName",
                       
"iiTbname1" => "tbName1",
                    ),
                ),
            ),
           
"tdata" => "otheerDAta"
       
);

  
/**
     * Create XML using string or array
     *
     * @param mixed $data input data
     * @param SimpleXMLElement $xml
     * @param string $child name of first level child
     *
     * @return adding Xml formated data into SimpleXmlElement
     */

function data2XML(array $data, SimpleXMLElement $xml, $child = "items")
    {

        foreach(
$data as $key => $val) {
            if(
is_array($val)) {

                if(
is_numeric($key)) {
                   
$node  = $xml->addChild($child);
                   
$nodes = $node->getName($child);
                } else {

                   
$node  = $xml->addChild($key);
                   
$nodes = $node->getName($key);
                }

               
$node->addChild($nodes, self::data2Xml($val, $node));
            } else {
               
$xml->addChild($key, $val);
            }
        }

    }

//Use

       
$xml    = new SimpleXMLElement("<root/>");
       
Util::data2XML($xmlDAta, $xml, "Items");

?>
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passerbyxp at gmail dot com
10 years ago
Be aware that simply because you can <?php $dom->addChild();?> doesn't mean your XML is valid under simple XML itself:

<?php
$dom
=simplexml_load_string("<test></test>");
$dom->addChild("3D","1,2,3");
$xml=$dom->asXML();
echo
$xml;
/* echos:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test><3D>1,2,3</3D></test>
*/

$dom=simplexml_load_string($xml);
/*
generates a whole lots of warnings,
and refuses to create an object.
*/
?>

Same in PHP 5.3 and 5.4
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carlos dot eduardo dot debiasi at gmail dot com
2 years ago
I create this function so you can through and array build the XML, this allows multiple keys with the same value.
The structure must follow

[
    'key' => 'nameOfTheKey',
    'attributes' => ['id' => '1'],
    'fields' => [
        ['key' => 'fieldSamName', 'value' => '1'],
        ['key' => 'fieldSamName', 'value' => '1'],
        ['key' => 'fieldSamName', 'value' => '2'],
        ['key' => 'fieldWithChild', 'fields' => [
            ['key' => 'car', 'value' => '2'],
            ['key' => 'human', 'value' => '3'],
        ]],
    ]
];

Function:
function toXml(\SimpleXMLElement $node, array $data)
    {
        foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
            $key = $value['key'];
            if (isset($value['value'])) {
                    $newNode = $node->addChild($key, $value['value']);
                if (isset($value['attributes'])) {
                    foreach ($value['attributes'] as $keyAttr => $valueAttr) {
                        $newNode->addAttribute($keyAttr, $valueAttr);
                    }
                }
            } else {
                $newNode = $node->addChild($key);
                if (isset($value['attributes'])) {
                    foreach ($value['attributes'] as $keyAttr => $valueAttr) {
                        $newNode->addAttribute($keyAttr, $valueAttr);
                    }
                }
            }
            if (isset($value['fields'])) {
                foreach ($value['fields'] as $keyField => $valueField) {
                    $this->toXml($newNode, [$keyField => $valueField]);
                }
            }
        }
    }
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felipenmoura at gmail dot com
12 years ago
This method returns a reference to the specific SimpleXMLElement.
If you use:
<?php
    $xml
= new SimpleXMLElement('<root></root>');
   
$xml->father['name']= 'Fathers name'; // creates automatically a father tag with attribute name
   
$son= $xml->father->addChild('son'); // uses the first father tag
   
$son['name']= 'first son';
   
$otherSon= $xml->father->addChild('son'); // uses the first father tag but now, in a second son tag
   
$otherSon['name']= 'second son';
   
    echo
htmlentities($xml->asXML());
?>

The result will be
<root>
    <father>
        <son name='first son' />
        <son name='second son' />
    </father>
</root>

So, once you change something to the just added child, you are actually accessing the element inside the SimpleXMLElement as a reference.
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jerikojerk
12 years ago
If you're looking for a way to append children you may be interested in this:

<?php
$x
= new SimpleXMLElement('<root name="toplevel"></root>');
$f1 = new SimpleXMLElement('<child pos="1">alpha</child>');
$f2 = new SimpleXMLElement('<child pos="2">beta</child>');
$f3 = new SimpleXMLElement('<child pos="3">gamma</child>');

$x->{$f1->getName()} = $f1;
$x->{$f2->getName()}[] = $f2;
$x->{$f3->getName()}[] = $f3;

echo
'count child=',$x->count(),"\n";
echo
$x->asXML();

foreach (
$x->children() as $foo )
{
   
var_dump($foo);
}

?>
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thallisphp at gmail dot com
9 years ago
<?php
class MySimpleXMLElement extends SimpleXMLElement
{
   
/**
     * Add SimpleXMLElement code into a SimpleXMLElement
     *
     * @param SimpleXMLElement $append
     */
   
public function appendXML($append)
    {
        if (
$append) {
            if (
strlen(trim((string)$append)) == 0) {
               
$xml = $this->addChild($append->getName());
            } else {
               
$xml = $this->addChild($append->getName(), (string)$append);
            }

            foreach (
$append->children() as $child) {
               
$xml->appendXML($child);
            }

            foreach (
$append->attributes() as $n => $v) {
               
$xml->addAttribute($n, $v);
            }
        }
    }
}
?>
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