I have xml files been imported onto an FTP server. This is stored in location '/public_html/ctrackxml/' with a random file name and in the following format:
<message type="POSITIONDATA">
<messageid>-1</messageid>
<mobile>SNK261GP</mobile>
<time>2012/01/20 08:34:45 AM</time>
<latitude>-29.8477</latitude>
<longitude>30.9554</longitude>
<status>Driving</status>
<speed>82</speed>
<address> near Outer Ring Road (N2); Umkumbaan; in Durban</address>
<direction>
</direction>
<runningodo>1587000</runningodo>
</message>
I need to loop through all the files in the folder and import each file into the MySQL database table xmldata which has the following structure:
I need each tag in the xml file to be imported into a seperate field in the table. so each xml file represent one table entry.
From the research I have done it looks like I need to use the 'LOAD XML LOCAL INFILE' mysql syntax however I cant seem to get this to work correctly directly within mysql.
If you could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
Update
below is the code that I hav emanaged to scrape together with the assistance of another website. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=244744.0
I tested the script from phpfreaks and it works 100% however the xml structure is quite different. I have tried to modify the code to suite my xml file but am having some issues to get this working.
my code is as follows but currently fails ont he foreach statement:
<?php
echo "starting <br><br>";
//mysql connection
$con2 = mysql_connect("localhost","dbuser","dbpassword");
if (!$con2) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); }
$selectdb = mysql_select_db("dbname", $con2);
if (!$selectdb) { die('Database not used: ; ' . mysql_error()); }
echo "connected to DB<br/><br/>";
//simplexml load xml file
$library = simplexml_load_file('http://www.website/ctrackxml/CTO_20120119140006_0000.xml');
echo "xml loaded<br/><br/>";
//loop through parsed xmlfeed and print output
foreach ($message->message as $message) {
printf("messageid: %s
", $messageid->messageid);
printf("mobile: %s
", $mobile->mobile);
printf("time: %s
", $time->time);
printf("latitude: %s
", $latitude->latitude);
printf("longitude: %s
", $longitude->longitude);
printf("status: %s
", $status->status);
printf("speed: %s
", $speed->speed);
printf("address: %s
", $address->address);
printf("direction: %s
", $direction->direction);
printf("runningodo: %s
", $runningodo->runningodo);
echo "xml parsed<br/><br/>";
//insert into databse
mysql_query("INSERT INTO xml (messageid, mobile, time,latitude,longitude,status,speed,address,direction,odometer)
VALUES (\"$messageid->messageid\", \"$mobile->mobile\", \"$time->time\", \"$latitude->latitude\", \"$longitude->longitude\", \"$status->status\", \"$speed->speed\", \"$address->address\", \"$direction->direction\", \"$runningodo->runningodo\")")
or die(mysql_error());
echo "inserted into mysql<br/><br/>";
//show updated records
printf ("Records inserted: %d
", mysql_affected_rows());
}
//close connection
mysql_close($con2);
?>
Thanks as always to everyone for the help.