XML Generator 2.0 - PHP & DOM
Friday, May 11th, 2007Update: I have updated and fixed some minor functionalities of this script and also changed its name to XML Generator DIR to differentiate from the new flavor XML Generator DB. Although the usage still the same you should check the new post instead.
So here it is! The 2nd version of the XML generator that will make a lot easier to create XML configuration files. As the previous version this one is focused in the creation of configuration files for image galleries, music players and related stuff where you need to list all files in a directory. The difference is that in this version you can create almost any XML structure in a simpler way.
While writing the 1st-version post I had this idea to use a model file instead of tweaking PHP variables and arrays. Different from before now you have freedom to define your XML file. You can have how many nested tags you want and also you can have attributes.
Writing this script was fun. I used PHP and the DOM library for the job. I won’t be explaining the code in details here because it already has a lot of comments but I may write a post explaining the DOM in more details based on readers feedback.