Read XML file and write to a php array/file

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Hi,

I need to update the country list of my website and I want to automate the process. Country list can be found here
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes...code_lists.htm

I tried it this way –
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_xml_parser_expat.asp (PHP XML Expat Parser)
However, this didn’t seem to work well as I was confused where to actually ‘get’ the data and print it to my own array for later use.

Now I want to try it using XML DOM
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.domxml.php ).

Just want to check with everyone, if I had a simple XML file to read, that contained a country code and country name as follows:


< Entry> 
< Country_name>AFGHANISTAN</ Country_name>
< Code_element>AF</ Code_element>
</Entry>

I want to read this file (DOM method), and then feed the data into a separate file/array of mine that will be accessed by my website. What PHP xml functions would YOU use/recommend to do this simple task?

Any help in this regards is appreciated.

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Hi isurupalliyaguru,
Check your link what you have given above it seems to be(iso.org) “404 error”.