sample of my xml
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type = "text/xsl" href = "input.xsl"?>
<products>
<laptop>
<name>hp </name>
<details>
15.6-Inch Espresso Laptop - Up to 4 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)
</details>
<price>600$</price>
</laptop>
<laptop>
<name>dell vostro</name>
<details>
17-Inch
</details>
<price>600$</price>
</laptop>
<laptop>
<name>acer aspire </name>
<details>
15.4-Inch
</details>
<price>600$</price>
</laptop>
</products>the html is as follows
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('order.xml');
$names = $xml->xpath('/products/laptop/name');
?>
<meta name="update" content="updating products data" />
<title>index</title>
<link href="../includes/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="Container">
<h1>The IT Portal</h1>
<div id="navbar">
<ul>
<li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="../products.html">Products</a></li>
<li><a href="../new_arrivals.html">New Arrivals</a></li>
<li><a href="../about.html">About us</a></li>
<li><a href="../Search.html">Search</a></li>
<li><a href="../Register.html">Register</a></li>
<li><a href="../login.html">LOGIN</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="con1">
<form action="update_p.php" method="post">
<table width="400" border="0" id="tab5">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<?php
//foreach($detail as $details) {
//echo"$details";
//$det = $details;
//}
//$details = $xml->xpath('/products/laptop/details');
echo"$det";
echo " <select name=\"list\" id=\"list\" onchange=\"details.value = \"{$det}\"> ";
foreach($names as $name) {
echo "<option>";
echo $name;
echo "</option>";
}
?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label>Product Name</label></td>
<td><input name="pname" type="text" value="" id="pname" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label>Details</label></td>
<td><textarea name="details" cols="" rows="2"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Price</td>
<td><input name="pprice" type="text" value="" id="pprice" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Image</td>
<td><input type="file" value=""/></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" value="Update" /><input name="" type="reset" />
</form>
</div>
<div class="push"></div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p>It Portal (c) 2009</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>the php file is my problem
it is supposed to delete product and add a replacement for it
<?php
extract($_POST);
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->load('order.xml');
$laptops = $doc->getElementsByTagName('laptop');
foreach($laptops as $laptop)
{
$name = $laptop->getElementsByTagName('name')->item(0)->textContent;
if($_POST['list'] == $name)
{
$doc->documentElement->removeChild($laptop);
}
}
//$doc->save('order.xml');
//$doc = new DOMDocument;
//$doc->load('order.xml');
$root = $dom -> getElementsByTagName('products');
$root = $dom->documentElement;
$element = $dom->createElement("laptop");
$root->appendChild($element);
$pname = $dom->createElement('Name',$tname);
$element->appendChild($pname);
$details = $dom->createElement('details',$detail);
$element->appendChild($details);
$price = $dom->createElement('price',$price);
$element->appendChild($price);
$doc->save('order.xml');
echo "saved after add";
?>