Learn XML

Read these tutorials to learn how to work with data in XML format. Use XML to manipulate data, and learn how to parse and validate XML documents.
  1. Parse XML to an Array in PHP With SimpleXML

    Parse XML to an Array in PHP With SimpleXML

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this post, you'll learn how to parse XML into an array in PHP. SimpleXML is a PHP extension that makes this possible.

  2. Magento Theme Development: Bootstrapping

    Magento Theme Development: Bootstrapping

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this second article of our Magento theme development series, we’ll set up the basis of our new theme. We’ll set up the basic directory structure of our...

  3. Understand Overriding in Magento: Controllers

    Understand Overriding in Magento: Controllers

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In the third and last article of this Magento overriding series, I'll explain how to override core controller files. In the previous two articles of this...

  4. Create a Custom Shipping Method in Magento

    Create a Custom Shipping Method in Magento

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, I'm going to explain how to create a custom shipping method module in Magento. We'll create a Magento custom module to demonstrate this....

  5. Create a Custom API in Magento: Part One

    Create a Custom API in Magento: Part One

    Tutorial Advanced

    In this two-part series, we're going to look at the Magento APIs. Specifically we'll create custom APIs and expose them. In this first part, we'll create a...

  6. Magento Pre-Launch Checklist

    Magento Pre-Launch Checklist

    Tutorial Beginner

    Making a Magento website live is not child’s play. If you are a Magento developer you know that this a daunting task for even a seasoned developer. It's the...

  7. Custom Widget Development in Magento

    Custom Widget Development in Magento

    Tutorial Intermediate

    For a while now, Magento has been the benchmark set amongst the e­-commerce frameworks available in the market. Credit goes to the plethora of ­rich built-in...

  8. A Short Guide to Trackbacks

    A Short Guide to Trackbacks

    Tutorial Beginner

    Trackbacks connect blogs together and create a network of blogs in the same way that links create a network of web pages.

  9. Quick Tip: Using the Datagrid With XML

    Quick Tip: Using the Datagrid With XML

    Tutorial Beginner

    I'm going to demonstrate how to use the datagrid component with an xml file. When you need to display tabular data there is no quicker and easier way than to...

  10. Build a Handy AS3 Weather App with the Yahoo API

    Build a Handy AS3 Weather App with the Yahoo API

    Tutorial Intermediate

    With help from this tutorial you will learn how to use the Yahoo Weather API to obtain and display weather forecasts with AS3.

  11. Using Google Maps' New Features for Flash

    Using Google Maps' New Features for Flash

    Tutorial Intermediate

    After such a positive response to my first tutorial Implement a Map Using the Google Map API for Flash I decided to write a second. Since that first tut the...

  12. Create a Dynamic Bar Graph Generator Using XML + AS3

    Create a Dynamic Bar Graph Generator Using XML + AS3

    Tutorial Intermediate

    A bar chart or bar graph is a chart with rectangular bars whose lengths are proportional to the values they represent. They're commonly used for comparing...