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Storing Data

• Observe: Urlacher's inventory not in session.
• Could it?

Storing Data in XML

• You're in charge! toggle
  • You get to make up the tags in the XML.
  • You get to specify the xpaths to get data.
• XML support built into PHP. toggle
  • SimpleXML
  • XMLReader, XMLWriter
  • XSL, XSLT

OOP in PHP

• PHP is an object-oriented language (PHP 5 much more so).
• Creating an object: new ClassName($args)
• Accessing methods: $o->method($args)

SimpleXML

• simplexml_load_file($filename)
• new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr)
• $simple_xml->xpath($xpath)
• Magically use element names! toggle
  • $simple_xml->element
  • $simple_xml->{'element'}
• Elements that occur more than once magically turn into arrays!