Comments on: How-to Handle Large XML Files in PHP

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:20:17 +0000

Christian –

Nice post and an elegant solution. Alas in my real world scenario and based on restrictions, I couldn’t use it.

Yours is one way of many and thanks so much ofr sharing :)

Best, Vincent -

By: Christian Weiske

Christian Weiske — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:49:50 +0000

You are circumventing the problem here. PHP has much more elegant ways to deal with huge XML files. I described one in a blog entry:
http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/Importing%20huge%20XML%20files%20using%20PHP5%20-%20efficiently%20and%20conveniently.htm

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:02:07 +0000

No problem, glad the notion and technique is of use as much as the code. No doubt I would refactor the code if I needed it again :) Best, Vincent -

By: cranbow

cranbow — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:54:10 +0000

Thanks for the tips. This helped me a lot. I cleaned up the code a bit for my purposes, but it worked very well.

By: webdesign

webdesign — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:19:43 +0000

Great tutorial .. you missed alot of syntax but when i finally got it runningno more big file errors :D

By: Jim Chan

Jim Chan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:39:08 +0000

HeyThanks for sharing the great piece of code. Just have a question and hope if you could please address this question. I think I have misconfigured the file.

Here is an example for items: Which one is core data delimiter / record delimeter?

New York
Yes

Thanks again!
-Jim

By: Travis Ballard

Travis Ballard — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:36:47 +0000

i just wanted to thank you for this. it helped me quite a bit with a project i just finished. at first i tried just using simplexml to read a 400mb xml file and well, php wasn’t having that. now it may create 20k files but it deletes them when it’s done and everything is working great. thanks!