Reading an XML Sitemap using PHP

In this short tutorial I will cover reading a Google/XML Sitemap and grabbing hold of each URL to use as you wish. This is amazingly easy to do:

Firstly we need to pass in the Sitemap URL. In the example we’re going to use GET since this is the most useful in my opinion.

<?php

$sitemap = $_GET['sitemap'];

// Some simple validation
if (!$myxml=simplexml_load_file($sitemap)){
    echo ‘Unable to Access the Sitemap’;
}
// Loop through XML
foreach($myxml as $url)
{
       $webpage_url = $url->loc;
       // Do your thing here, store it in a database, run it against a function etc.
}
?>

This is ideal for reading a sitemap or RSS feed. Give it a try

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