phpMyMenu - My first ever open source project published September 2006. I was 13 years old at the time, please don't judge me.

menu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!-- This is a sample XML menu file -->
<menu>
	<menuItems>
		<menuItem>
			<mItext>Sample link</mItext>
			<mIlink>dir/to/page</mIlink>
		</menuItem>
	</menuItems>
	<layout>
		<!--
		Some layout information
		LT will be replaced with <
		GT will be replaced with >
		REPLACE_LINK will be replaced with the link (mIlink)
		REPLACE_TEXT will be replaced with the text (mItext)
		//-->
		<pre></pre>
		<line>LTa href="REPLACE_LINK"GTREPLACE_TEXTLT/aGT</line>
		<post></post>
	</layout>
</menu>

parse.php

<?php

// Load the XML file containing layout and items int the variable $menu
$menu = simplexml_load_file("menu.xml");

// Making an array of words to replace
$search = array ( 'LT', 'GT', 'REPLACE_LINK', 'REPLACE_TEXT' );

// The words to replace them with
$replace_with = array ( '<', '>');

$pre = str_replace($search, $replace_with, $menu->layout->pre);
echo $pre;

// Print one line for every item
foreach ($menu->menuItems->menuItem as $menuItem) {
	$replace_with = array('<', '>', $menuItem->mIlink, $menuItem->mItext);
	$line = str_replace($search, $replace_with, $menu->layout->line);
	echo $line;
}
$replace_with = array ( '<', '>');
$post = str_replace($search, $replace_with, $menu->layout->post);
echo $post;
?>