# Writing to XML using a PHP form

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**Created:** [March 18, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-xml-using-a-php-form/141234 "2005-03-18T00:05:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![DaveMania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@DaveMania](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DaveMania)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-xml-using-a-php-form/141234/1 "2005-03-18T00:05:20Z")

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I’m a bit new to the whole flat file thing and I’m starting with a simple XML file as my data source.  
So I have the means to read it  
turning  
\<blog\>  
\<head\>Title1\</head\>  
\<content\>The writing\</content\>  
\<footer\>the final bit\</footer\>  
\</blog\>

into something displayed on my site but now how can i write to it so that it comes up with the same but in another \<blog\> tree?

thanks  
Dave