Parse/Read data from XML Sitemap using PHP

                                You can Create XML Sitemap dynamically using PHP and MySQL. Then you've have a doubt. How can retrieve data from XML Sitemap using PHP? In this post, You are going to know get data from XML Sitemap using PHP.

                                 You can get value from XML Sitemap using PHP in following two ways.

1. Get data from XML Sitemap using simple_load_file() in PHP
2. Get data from XML Sitemap using file_get_contents() and SimpleXMLElement() in PHP

Lets see below examples.

Get data from XML Sitemap using simple_load_file() in PHP

                                   Simple_load_file() in PHP is used to convert XML document into an object. The below example explain retrieve data from XML Sitempa.

<?php
$xml=simplexml_load_file('http://www.phponwebsites.com/sitemap.xml');
//print_R($xml);
foreach($xml->url as $val)
 {
  echo $val->loc.' '. $val->lastmod.' '. $val->changefreq.' '. $val->priority.'<br>';
 }
?>

Get data from XML Sitemap using file_get_contents and SimpleXMLElement in PHP

                                  File_get_contents() is used to read the contents of a file into string. SimpleXMLElement is used to represents elements of XML document. The below example explain retrieve data from XML Sitemap.

<?php
$url=file_get_contents('http://www.phponwebsites.com/sitemap.xml');
$xml=new SimpleXMLElement($url);
//print_R($xml);
foreach($xml->url as $val)
 {
  echo $val->loc.' '. $val->lastmod.' '. $val->changefreq.' '. $val->priority.'<br>';
 }
?>

 When you give print_R() in above PHP file, you can see the output on screen like below.

 SimpleXMLElement Object (
   [url] => Array (
         [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object (
       [loc] => http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/php.html
           [lastmod] => 2014-07-26
       [changefreq] => daily
       [priority] => 1 )
 [1] => SimpleXMLElement Object (
       [loc] => http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/mysql.html
       [lastmod] => 2014-07-26
       [changefreq] => daily
       [priority] => 1 )
 [2] => SimpleXMLElement Object (
       [loc] => http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/htaccess.html
       [lastmod] => 2014-07-26
       [changefreq] => daily
       [priority] => 1 )
  )
)

Now you can retrieve data from XML Sitemap.

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Create XML file using PHP and MySQL

                                   You can get output as XML format using PHP. You can import values to XML file from Mysql database using PHP.

                                   XML expands Extensible Markup Language. It is used to share your data across various platforms. You can also retrieve values from XML file using PHP.

Get output as XML format using PHP

                                    If you want to convert your Mysql table values into XML format using PHP, then follow below steps.

Step1: Add header to XML file in PHP

                                    First you need to add content type of XML file in PHP in order to get output as XML format. It need to add below PHP codes in your PHP file.

header ("content-type: text/xml");

Step2: Connect mysql database

                                    After added content type of XML, you need to connect Mysql database using PHP to retrieve values from it. You add below codes after content type in PHP file.

mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
mysql_select_db('fitness');

Step3: Add content to XML file

                                  Then select required values from Mysql database using mysql_query(). Retrieve values from query result using mysql_fetch_array. Finally your PHP file look likes below one.

<?php
header ("content-type: text/xml");
mysql_connect('localhost','root','') or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db('fitness') or die(mysql_error());
$xml='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
$qr=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `f_img` order by id desc") or die(mysql_error());
$xml.='<userlist>';
while($res=mysql_fetch_array($qr))
{
 $xml.='<user><name>'.$res['name'].'</name><state>'.$res['state'].'</state><country>'.$res['country'].'</country></user>';
}
$xml.='</userlist>';
echo $xml;
?>

                                 You will get output as XML format like below,

<userlist>
    <user>
       <name>Clark</name>
       <state>California</state>
       <country>USA</country>
   </user>
   <user>
      <name>Smith</name>
      <state>London</state>
      <country>United Kingdom</country>
   </user>
   <user>
      <name>Nathan</name>
      <state>Franche Comte</state>
      <country>France</country>
   </user>
   <user>
      <name>Nastya</name>
      <state>Moscow</state>
      <country>Russia</country>
   </user>
</userlist>

                                     Now you got output as XML content. Similarly, you can get XML element's values using PHP.

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Create json file using PHP and MySQL

                        You can create json file using PHP and Mysql. You can get output as json format using PHP and Mysql. Before you want to know that, first you should know what is json? and what is the us of json?

JSON

      
                       JSON expands JavaScript Object Notation. It is one of the data interchange format. You can easily read and write data through JSON file.

                       It is language independent. So you can retrieve data from it using any familiar languages like PHP. It should be array format, object format and both array and object fotmat.

     The array format of Json file should be like this,

       [    
           {
              'tutorial':'PHP',
              'link':'http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/php.html'
           },
           {
              'tutorial':'Mysql',
              'link':'http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/mysql.html'
           },
           {
            'tutorial':'htaccess',
            'link':'http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/htaccess.html'
           }    
      ]

The object of JSON should be like this,

    {  
           'tutorial':'PHP',
            'link':'http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/php.html'  
    }

Get output as json format using PHP and Mysql

                           Now you know something about JSON files. So we are going to know how to get output as JSON format using php and mysql.

Add header to create json file using PHP and Mysql

       
                          If you want to create json file, then you have to add header for json file. It is like below

header('Content-Type: application/json'); 

          Where json indicate this is json file

Add content to json file using PHP

             Then you need to add contents to your json file as you want as. Retrieve values from query result using mysql_fetch_array. Suppose you have more values in a variable. Then you need to store all values in array. Consider the following PHP code.

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
$linklist=array();
$link=array();
mysql_connect('localhost','root','') or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db('quicksai_quick') or die(mysql_error());
$qr=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `links` ") or die(mysql_error());
while($res=mysql_fetch_array($qr))
{
 $link['tutorial']=$res['tutorial'];
 $link['url']=$res['url'];
 array_push($linklist,$link);
}
//print_R($linklist);
echo json_encode($linklist);
?>

      The above example explain how to create json file on multidimensional array using PHP and Mysql.
     where,
               array() - create array variable.
               array_push() - insert values into array
               json_encode() - encode the values and returns JSON representation of values
             

The above example will give output as json file. It should be like this:

      

      [

      {'tutorial':'PHP', 'link':'http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/php.html'},

      {'tutorial':'Mysql', 'link':'http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/mysql.html'},

      {'tutorial':'htaccess','link':'http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/htaccess.html'}

      ]

  

                   Now you can get output as json file. Then you should know how to retrieve values from json file using PHP.

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Get/Read value from RSS Feed using PHP

                                You can generate RSS Feed using PHP and MySQL. Then you've have a doubt. How can retrieve data from RSS Feed using PHP? In this post, You are going to know get data from RSS Feed using PHP.

                                 You can get value from RSS Feed using PHP in following two ways.

1. Get data from RSS Feed using simple_load_file() in PHP
2. Get data from RSS Feed using file_get_contents() and SimpleXMLElement() in PHP

Lets see below examples.

Get data from RSS Feed using simple_load_file() in PHP

                                   Simple_load_file() in PHP is used to convert XML document into an object. The below example explain retrieve data from RSS Feed.

<?php
$xml=simplexml_load_file('http://www.phponwebsites.com/rss.xml');
//print_R($xml);
foreach($xml->channel->item as $val)
 {
  echo $val->title.' '. $val->link.'<br>';
 }
?>

Get data from RSS Feed using file_get_contents and SimpleXMLElement in PHP

                                  File_get_contents() is used to read the contents of a file into string. SimpleXMLElement is used to represents elements of XML document. The below example explain retrieve data from RSS Feed.

<?php
$url=file_get_contents('http://www.phponwebsites.com/rss.xml');
$xml=new SimpleXMLElement($url);
//print_R($xml);
foreach($xml->channel->item as $val)
 {
  echo $val->title.' '. $val->link.'<br>';
 }
?>

 When you give print_R() in above PHP file, you can see the output on screen like below.

  SimpleXMLElement Object (
   [@attributes] => Array ( [version] => 2.0 )
   [channel] => SimpleXMLElement Object (
         [title] => Phponwebsites
[link] => http://www.phponwebsites.com
[description] => Phponwebsites about php related topics like .htaccess, robots.txt, mysql, jquery, ajax, js and also php for php developers
         [language] => en-us
[item] => Array (
          [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object (
            [title] => PHP
  [link] => http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/php.html
               [description] => PHP doubts clarified at Phponwebsites
                )
         [1] => SimpleXMLElement Object (
            [title] => MySQL
           [link] => http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/mysql.html
               [description] => MySQL doubts clarified at Phponwebsites
               )
           [2] => SimpleXMLElement Object (
           [title] => htaccess
          [link] => http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/htaccess.html
              [description] => htaccess doubts clarified at Phponwebsites
               )
          )
    )
)

Now you can retrieve data from RSS Feed.

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Create RSS Feed dynamically using PHP and MySQL

                                    You can create RSS feed dynamically using PHP like how you create sitemap dynamically using PHP and MySQL. Before you are going to know create RSS Feed, you should know what is RSS Feed? and why you need to add RSS Feed to your websites?

What is RSS Feed?

                                   RSS expands Really Simple Syndication. It is developed in XML like Sitemap. It is like content delivery vehicle. That means, you created a product, Ii distributes it to all places. Due to this feed, the viewers of your websites can easily find the latest pages of your websites. So there is no need to spend more time to search their desired topics on your web contents. This is the short description about RSS Feed. 

For more details, visit
    RSS Feed in W3schools
    RSS Feed at rss.softwaregarden
    what is RSS Feed
    Definition of RSS Feed at press-feed

Structure of RSS Feed

             
                                   The structure of RSS Feed is described below.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<rss version='2.0'>
<channel>
    <title>Phponwebsites</title>
    <link>http://www.phponwebsites.com</link>
    <description>Phponwebsites about php related topics like .htaccess, robots.txt, mysql, jquery, ajax, js and also php for php developers</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <item>
      <title>PHP</title>
      <link>http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/php.html</link>
      <description>PHP doubts clarified at Phponwebsites</description>
   </item>
  <item>
      <title>MySQL</title>
      <link>http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/mysql.html</link>
      <description>MySQL doubts clarified at Phponwebsites</description>
   </item>
  <item>
      <title>htaccess</title>
      <link>http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/htaccess.html</link>
      <description>Htaccess doubts clarified at Phponwebsites</description>
   </item>
</channel>
</rss>

Generate RSS Feed dynamically using PHP and MySQL

                 Let see how to create RSS Feed dynamically using PHP and MySQL. Follow the below steps to create feed.

1. Create database and table

                  First you create database for store your link details on it. The below MySQL query is used for create database.

                Create database new

 where new is database name

                Use new

The above query is used to use database "new".
                  The MySQL query for create table is,

                Create table links (id int not null auto_increment primary key, name varchar(200), link varchar(200), description varchar(250))

                 Now the table "links" is created. Then store values into table using below query

                insert into table links values('','PHP','http://www.phponwebsites.com/p/php.html','PHP doubts are clarified at Phponwebsites')

                After insert values into table, your table look likes below

2. Add header type RSS Feed

                            First you need to add content type of RSS feed. It is represented below.

header("Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=ISO-8859-1");

3. Add content to RSS Feed

                         
                            First of all you need to store all links in your database. Then on;y you can retrieve it using PHP. The below example we Retrieve data from MySQL database using mysql_fetch_array in PHP.
After added header, you have to add some name spaces for RSS Feed. Finally add contents to RSS Feed.

<?php
header("Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=ISO-8859-1");
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?>
<rss
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
    xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"
version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Phponwebsites</title>
<link>http://www.phponwebsites.com</link>
<description>Phponwebsites about php related topics like .htaccess, robots.txt, mysql, jquery, ajax, js and also php for php developers</description>';
       $connection = @mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '') or die(mysql_error());
       mysql_select_db('new')  or die (mysql_error());
       $query = "SELECT * FROM links order by id desc";
       $rss = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
       $ImgPath='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiEMDL1tvD_oaHIph6KkufjJK5hc5m7kwdJoVgkjFJuf4oqWWbSQXNDkuq1-ukdOhgudTe6gou7Al4oAbvJ-oC-ejuZEhre-ue99v02aajGkKGacaDkZPfk09v7DvUzZlJbIoaxNajoMu/s1600/logo5.png';
       while($row=mysql_fetch_array($rss)){
       echo '
<item>
<title>'.$row['name'].'</title>
<link>'.$row['link'].'</link>
<content:encoded>
      <![CDATA[<p align="left">
          <a href="'.$row['link'].'"><img style="background-image: none; " border="0" src="'.$ImgPath.'" />    </a></p>]]>
       </content:encoded>
       <description>'.$row['description'].'</description></item>';
}
      echo '</channel>
</rss>';
?>

               When you run this file on firfox, you will get output like below

4. Htaccess

                         Then you have to add below lines to your htaccess file.

                    RewriteRule ^rss.xml$ rss.php [L]

When you type rss.xml in your browser address bar, it redirects to rss.php.

             Finally you got dynamic RSS Feed.

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Create contact form and send mail using PHP

                                  PHP allows you to create custom forms like contact form , registration form, login form. A websites should contains contact form for user contact them. You can create contact form and send user details to website owner using PHP mail. Let see create contact form using PHP.

1. Create contact form in HTML

                                 You need to create front end design for user view. This is the static page which is developed using HTML. It should be below HTML code.

<form action="#" method="post">
      <table id="tbl" align="center">
       <tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="name" id="name"></td></tr>
       <tr><td>Phone:</td><td><input type="text" name="phone" id="phone"></td></tr>
  <tr><td>Email:</td><td><input type="text" name="mail" id="mail"></td></tr>
  <tr><td>Message:</td><td><textarea rows="5" cols="25" name="message" id="message"></textarea></td></tr>
       <tr><td></td><td><input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit"></td></tr>
      </table>

     </form>

2. Add CSS to HTML form

                             When you run above HTML file, it should not be attracted by user. So you need to add some CSS to that HTML file in order to make your contact form as attractive. Some of CSS styles are below.

 body {
 color:white;
 font-size:14px;
 }
 .contact {
    text-align:center;
    background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #8FBF73;
    padding: 20px 10px;
    box-shadow: 1px 2px 1px #8FBF73;
    border-radius: 10px;
width:510px;
 }
 #name, #phone, #mail, #message {
    width: 250px;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
    background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #AFCF9C;
    border: 1px solid #91B57C;
    height: 30px;
    color: #808080;
    border-radius: 8px;
    box-shadow: 1px 2px 3px;
}
#message {
 height:150px;
 width:300px;
}
#submit
{
    background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% #8FCB73;
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 5px 10px;
    line-height: 1.05em;
box-shadow: 1px 2px 3px #8FCB73;
    border-radius: 8px;
    border: 1px solid #8FCB73;
    text-decoration: none;
    opacity: 0.9;
    cursor: pointer;
color:white;
}
#er {
    color: #F00;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 10px 0px;
    font-size: 17px;

}

3. Add javascript for form validation

                                 Then you've to validate your form using javascript. You can validate empty textbox, validate valid email id and valid phone number using below javascript.

$(document).ready(function() {
$('#submit').click(function() {
var name=document.getElementById('name').value;
var phone=document.getElementById('phone').value;
var mail=document.getElementById('mail').value;
var message=document.getElementById('message').value;
var ph = /^([0-9-+]+)$/;
var chk = /^([\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;
if(name=='')
{
 $('#er').html('Enter your name');
 return false;
}
if(phone=='')
{
 $('#er').html('Enter your phone number');
 return false;
}
if(!ph.test(phone) || phone.length!=10)
{
 $('#er').html('Enter valid phone number');
 return false;
}
if(mail=='')
{
 $('#er').html('Enter your mail');
 return false;
}
if(!chk.test(mail))
{
 $('#er').html('Enter valid email');
 return false;
}
if(message=='')
{
 $('#er').html('Enter your message');
 return false;
}
});

});

4. Send mail using PHP

                                   After designed HTML form, you need to get user details and send it to website owner using PHP mail(). Visit How to send mail using PHP. Let see below PHP script for send mail.

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
 {
  $name=$_POST['name'];
  $phone=$_POST['phone'];
  $mail=$_POST['mail'];
  $message=$_POST['message'];
  $to='guruparthiban19@gmail.com';
  $header='From: '.$mail;
  $subject=$name.' contacts you';
  $body="Name: ".$name."\n";
  $body.="Phone: ".$phone."\n";
  $body.="Email: ".$email."\n";
  $body="He/She says ".$message."\n";
  $m=mail($to,$subject,$body,$subject);
  if($m)
  {
   echo"<script>Message send successfully</script>";
  }
  else
  {
   $er="Message not sent";
  }
 }

5. PHP script for create contact form and end mail

                                      Combine above all script and make one PHP file with .php extension. This is the contact form of your website. It should be like below.

<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
 body {
 color:white;
 font-size:14px;
 }
 .contact {
    text-align:center;
    background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #8FBF73;
    padding: 20px 10px;
    box-shadow: 1px 2px 1px #8FBF73;
    border-radius: 10px;
width:510px;
 }
 #name, #phone, #mail, #message {
    width: 250px;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
    background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #AFCF9C;
    border: 1px solid #91B57C;
    height: 30px;
    color: #808080;
    border-radius: 8px;
    box-shadow: 1px 2px 3px;
}
#message {
 height:150px;
 width:300px;
}
#submit
{
    background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% #8FCB73;
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 5px 10px;
    line-height: 1.05em;
box-shadow: 1px 2px 3px #8FCB73;
    border-radius: 8px;
    border: 1px solid #8FCB73;
    text-decoration: none;
    opacity: 0.9;
    cursor: pointer;
color:white;
}
#er {
    color: #F00;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 10px 0px;
    font-size: 17px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
 error_reporting('E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE');
 if(isset($_POST['submit']))
 {
  $name=$_POST['name'];
  $phone=$_POST['phone'];
  $mail=$_POST['mail'];
  $message=$_POST['message'];
  $to='guruparthiban19@gmail.com';
  $header='From: '.$mail;
  $subject=$name.' contacts you';
  $body="Name: ".$name."\n";
  $body.="Phone: ".$phone."\n";
  $body.="Email: ".$email."\n";
  $body="He/She says ".$message."\n";
  $m=mail($to,$subject,$body,$subject);
  if($m)
  {
   echo"<script>Message send successfully</script>";
  }
  else
  {
   $er="Message not sent";
  }
 }
?>
<div class="contact">
<h1>Contact Us</h1>
     <div id="er"><?php echo $er; ?></div>
     <form action="#" method="post">
      <table id="tbl" align="center">
       <tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="name" id="name"></td></tr>
       <tr><td>Phone:</td><td><input type="text" name="phone" id="phone"></td></tr>
  <tr><td>Email:</td><td><input type="text" name="mail" id="mail"></td></tr>
  <tr><td>Message:</td><td><textarea rows="5" cols="25" name="message" id="message"></textarea></td></tr>
       <tr><td></td><td><input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit"></td></tr>
      </table>
     </form>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#submit').click(function() {
var name=document.getElementById('name').value;
var phone=document.getElementById('phone').value;
var mail=document.getElementById('mail').value;
var message=document.getElementById('message').value;
var ph = /^([0-9-+]+)$/;
var chk = /^([\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;
if(name=='')
{
 $('#er').html('Enter your name');
 return false;
}
if(phone=='')
{
 $('#er').html('Enter your phone number');
 return false;
}
if(!ph.test(phone) || phone.length!=10)
{
 $('#er').html('Enter valid phone number');
 return false;
}
if(mail=='')
{
 $('#er').html('Enter your mail');
 return false;
}
if(!chk.test(mail))
{
 $('#er').html('Enter valid email');
 return false;
}
if(message=='')
{
 $('#er').html('Enter your message');
 return false;
}
});
});
</script>
</body>

</html>

               When you run this file in your browser, you'll get below output on screen

                                     Now you can add this contact form to your website and make conversion with your clients.