ok so i built a simple playlist type thing where the user can click a link and then the player will play that song. Now i would like for the page to get info from an xml file and then display a short description.

here is my php:
[PHP]<?php
//select which song from url
$song = $_GET['song'];
$songfile = ''.$song.'.mp3';

//quicktime player that gets the source of the song from the url
echo '<embed qtsrc='.$songfile.' height"256" width="320" src='.$songfile.' type="image/x-quicktime" pluginspage="[http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/]" autoplay="true">';

/*Display current song and short description*/
//point variable to songlist.xml
$songlist = "songlist.xml";
//connect to songlist.xml
$songxml = simplexml_load_file($songlist);

//set simple if statement that if a song is selected display song information
if ( $song != NULL){
echo '<p id="soinginfo">Right now you are listing to '.$song.':<br/>'.$songxml->songlist->$song->description.'</p>';
}
/*End display info settings*/
?>[/PHP]

and here is the xml with some example songs

It seems like you need a simple xml parser.

Read this. If you get stuck I'll probably be able to help you. I've written parsers in c++/java/c# so I shouldn't see php as a problem.

yea it was a lot simpler than that code made it out to be you just have to use the simplexml_load_file() command the problem i was having was i edited the xml and php so many times i lost track of capitilization and so the words werent matching up.