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I need some help. I am a newbie to php ..
What I am trying to do is to parse an xml file and create a drop-down for the user.
I have attached how my drop down list looks currently.
What I want to do is to add a sub list to each option.. say to networkSecurity I want to add option a,b,c,d which I have to read from the same xml file.
How this can be done ?
To create normal drop-down list my code looks like

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?php $xml=simplexml_load_file('info.xml'); foreach($xml->testcase as $var){ $var=explode('/',$var->script); $module[] =$var[2]; $testName[] = end($var); } echo "<pre>"; print_r($module); print_r($testName); $modules = array_unique($module); foreach($modules as $newarr) { $newmodules[]=$newarr; } print_r($newmodules); ?> <select name="module" id="Module"> <?php $i=0; foreach($newmodules as $mod) { ?> <option value="<?php echo $mod;?>"><?php echo $newmodules[$i];?></option> <?php $i++; } ?> </select>

Also the XML file that I am parsing looks like Click Here
What i want to do is to parse the xml file, read the script tag and based on the 3rd position of script (hostAgentFeatures or sdnSTC) I have to create a dropdown list. Later I want to check all such script tags and read for 3rd position and for say sdnSTC I want to read the last value of script tag (ending with ".tcl") and create it as a sub drop-down list for sdnSTC.
How this can be done ?

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header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); $XML = simplexml_load_file('temp.xml'); $hold = array(); foreach($XML->testcase as $testcase) { $scriptBits = explode("/",$testcase->script); $parent = $scriptBits[2]; $sub = end($scriptBits); $hold[$parent][] = substr(trim($sub),0,-4); } $json = json_encode($hold); $output = ""; foreach($hold as $k=>$v) $output .= "<option value='$k'>$k</option>"; ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> </head> <body> <form> <select id="first"> <?php echo $output;?> </select> <select id="second"> </select> </form> <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> var data = <?php echo $json;?>; $('#module').change(function(){ fillSecond(); }); function fillSecond() { var first = $('#module').val(); var output = ''; $.each(data[first], function(i,v){ output += '<option value="'+ v + '">' + v + '</option>'; }); $('#second').html(output); } fillSecond(); </script> </body> </html>

An example of the type of thing I think you need.

Note I enclosed the XML snippet with a container tag <channel> so that testcase could be looped easily.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <channel> <testcase> (content) </testcase> <testcase> (content) </testcase> </channel>
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