Hello I successfully created my parser
Everything is working great except one thing since my xml is formated a little different and I am totally lost on how to assign variable to the children of <photos>.
xml portion

<item>
  <url /> 
  <name /> 
- <photos>
  <photo>1020944_0.jpg</photo> 
  <photo>1020944_1.jpg</photo> 
  <photo>1020944_2.jpg</photo> 
  </photos>
  <user_id /> 
 </item>

PHP code

<?
global $insideitem, $tag, $name, $photos, $user_id;

global $count,$db;

$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "user","pass");
mysql_select_db("db_name",$db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT user_id FROM table,$db);
while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$uid=$myrow['user_id'];
$UN_ID[$uid]=$uid;

}



$count=1;
$count2=1;

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {

global $insideitem, $tag, $name, $photos, $user_id;

if ($insideitem) {
$tag = $name;
} 

elseif($name == "ITEM"){
$insideitem = true;
}

}

function endElement($parser, $name) {

global $insideitem, $tag, $name, $photos, $user_id;

global $count,$count2,$db,$UN_ID;

if ($name == "ITEM") {


if(!$UN_ID[$unique_id]){


$name=addslashes($name);
$photo1=addslashes($photo);
$photo2=addslashes($photo);
$photo3=addslashes($photo);
$photo4=addslashes($photo);
$user_id=addslashes($category);


$sql = "INSERT INTO table 
(
name,
photo1,
photo2,
photo3,
photo4,
user_id
)
 
VALUES 

(
'$name',
'$photo',
'$photo',
'$photo',
'$photo',
'$user_id',
)";



$resultupdate = mysql_query($sql);
}
$name='';
$photos='';
$user_id='';

	
}
}



function characterData($parser, $data) {

global $insideitem, $tag, $name, $photos, $user_id;


if ($insideitem) {

switch ($tag) {

case "NAME":
$name .= $data;
break;

case "PHOTOS":
$photos .= $data;
break;

case "USER_ID":
$user_id .= $data;
break;

}

}

}


$xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); 


xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement"); 

xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData"); 

$fp = fopen("../myfile.xml","r") 
       or die("Error reading RSS data."); 


while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) 

// Parse each 4KB chunk with the XML parser created above 
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)) 

// Handle errors in parsing 
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",  
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),  
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser))); 

fclose($fp); 

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
?>

The number of <photo> tags can range between 1-4. I have tried searching everywhere for info on how to do this and tried everything but I just cant get it. After several days of this giving me headaches I really hope some one can enlighten me.