PHP：从PHP更新XML并保存

Question

I'm trying to update 1 particular node in an pre-existing xml file from php. The problem i'm having is that it doesn't seem to be saving to the xml file. Not sure why and any help here will be appreciated!

<?php       
$itemNumber = $_GET["itemNumberField"];

$xmlFile = "items.xml";

if(file_exists($xmlFile))
{           

    // $doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');
    // $doc->load($xmlFile);

    $doc = DOMDocument::load($xmlFile); 

    $item = $doc->getElementsByTagName("item");

    foreach($item as $node) 
    {   
        $itemNumberNode = $node->getElementsByTagName("itemNumber");
        $itemNumberNode = $itemNumberNode->item(0)->nodeValue;

        $qtyNode = $node->getElementsByTagName("quantity");
        $qtyNode = $qtyNode->item(0)->nodeValue;                

        if ($itemNumberNode == $itemNumber)
        {
            $qtyNode++;

            echo $qtyNode;                  
        }
    }        
} 

else 
{       
    echo "file doesn't exist! <br/>";       
}

$doc->save($xmlFile);

?>

Edit: Just to clarify, the adding to the node seems to be fine.

Solution: Turns out the reason it didn't save was because node of the adding. i had to either directly update it or assign an updated value to it.

$qtyNode = $node->getElementsByTagName("quantity");
$qtyNode = $qtyNode->item(0);
...
$qtyNode->nodeValue++;

Answer 1

You COPY the scalar value (string) into a variable. Then you change the variable.

    $qtyNode = $qtyNode->item(0)->nodeValue;                

    if ($itemNumberNode == $itemNumber)
    {
        $qtyNode++;

        echo $qtyNode;                  
    } 

$qtyNode is not a DOMNode object, but a string variable.

You will have to change the DOMNode::$nodeValue property directly or assign the variable to it.

    $qtyNode = $qtyNode->item(0);                

    if ($itemNumberNode == $itemNumber)
    {
        $qtyNode->nodeValue++;

        echo $qtyNode->nodeValue;                  
    }