In PHP Trying to Get Array Foreach into XML

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I Have an Array that I want a foreach to display the Key and Value as XML. The Page is coming up with <$value> and that is it? Any Ideas? Thank You!

$XML_a = array ("Ticket_ID" => "12343456");
    $query = "";
 $string_top = 
"<varcor_api>
    <response>";
       foreach ($XML_a as $key => $value) {
          $query .= "<" . $key . "><" . $value . "></" . $key . ">";
       }
$string_bottom = "
    </response>
</varcor_api>
";
    echo $string_top . $query . $string_bottom;

You did you try closing you your tags for the value like `"<$value />"`? Also i would really use `DOMDocument` for this.... — prodigitalson, Jan 13 '15 at 21:18
Is this "<" . $key . "><" . $value . ">" . $key . ">" supposed to be "<" . $key . ">" . $value . "" . $key . ">" — Dave Goten, Jan 13 '15 at 21:18
Why manually codify an XML document instead of using a [PHP library](http://stackoverflow.com/a/487629/59087) or a [database call](https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/XML_Support)? — Dave Jarvis, Jan 13 '15 at 21:19
Dave Jarvis this is going to be an API Call, I am using MariaDB and PHP to get the Ticket_ID then generating a SimpleXMLElement to display the XML, Which it works now. Thank You Dave Goten I know better then to have <> for the Value of the XML Element. Appreciate It! — T Varcor, Jan 13 '15 at 21:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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It's bad idea to concatenate XML strings into XML structure. Instead, use Array to XML conversion algorithm - see Convert array to XML and How to convert array to SimpleXML.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Jan 13 '15 at 21:53

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