<?// Escaping the input data: $rid = $_POST['id']; $explodeid = explode("-",$rid); $id = intval($explodeid[1]); $xmla = simplexml_load_file('../db/notes.xml'); $target = false; $i = 0; foreach ($xmla->note as $s) { if ($s['id']==$id) { $target = $i; break; } $i++; } if ($target !== false) { unset($xmla->note[$target]); } $xmla->asXML('../db/notes.xml'); $target++; echo $target; ?>