Php and xml?

pollux1er

I sometimes see people using PHP and XML. What is xml used for with php?

rvec

some sites have an xml feed with statistics or the first part of a story or any other content which updates every once in a while. With php you can read those files and display them on your site with php. An example are the statistics on this site.

Ranfaroth

XML is a format for exchanging plain data.
PHP is a programming language, sometime manipulating data.

So, they could easily be linked...