KML PHP parser to INSERT into database

Question

So I have a KML file which has attribute data(Inside the tag with about 12 data points). This file was generated on ArcGIS. I'm trying to write a PHP script to parse this KML file and insert the datapoints within the ExtendedData tag into a db. How do i do this?

Answer 1

This is a high-level answer as you've not given any specifics.

Reading KML is basically the same as XML (KML being a subset thereof).

Some possible resources:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8342337/parse-kml-file-with-php

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71913675

http://web.stefanproell.at/wp/2010/01/parsing-kml-files-with-php/

Then you just take the variable that you've read your data to and output it to the database.