Naz Gassiep wrote:
>
> Eric Butera wrote:
>> On 1/12/08, Naz Gassiep <naz@mira.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using simplexml to fetch data from a set of data files. If I have
>>> two files, and one is an update to the other, is there an easy way to
>>> merge the two files together, rather than having write logic that checks
>>> one and then the other?
>>>
>>> Both files conform to the same DTD and thus the data in the update will
>>> perfectly eclipse the data in the main file. If I can do this it would
>>> save me writing a whole bunch of logic.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> - Naz
>>
>> diff!
>
> Could I trouble you to elaborate? Or at least point to the RTFM url.
> - Naz.
>

once you have the data from simplexml, use http://us3.php.net/array_diff to get the differences
between the two data sets.


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