Re: php newbie question with xml files

This should get you started: $old_data = file_get_contents('./test.txt'); $my_data = "foo bar"; $pattern = '/(.*)(<\/.*>)$/i'; $replacement = '$1' . $my_data . '$2'; $new_data = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $old_data); echo $new_data; or a little more succinctly $my_data = "foo bar"; $new_data = preg_replace('/(.*)(<\/.*>)$/i', '$1' . $my_data . '$2', file_get_contents('./test.txt')); echo $new_data; Mark Cain ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Sherman" <jaredsherman@cox.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 2:00 AM Subject: [PHP] php newbie question with xml files > I have an xml document storing some data I need. What I want to do is this: > 1. Scan to the end of the file. > 2. Find the closing tag. > 3. Insert a new entry in before the closing tag. > > I've tried: > 1. Creating new files and renaming them to be the original. > 2. Writing the file to a dummy file and insert my lines part way through > then finish the last tag. > > My problem is I'm looking for a </endtag> and it comes up as endtag. Is > there anyway to force PHP to read the .xml file as a text file so it wont > strip off the xml tag information? > > I've used fopen with fgets and fwrite, and file with fwrite > > Jared Sherman > Totally lost newbie > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >