Xml PHP Get attributes and its children value

Question

XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<lessons>
    <lesson level="1" course="2">
                 <name type="Dog" category="Animals">Dog name</name>
          </lesson>
</lessons>

I want to get the values saved like this:

$type = "Dog";
$category = "Animals";
$name = "dog name";

This is what I've done:

    foreach($xml->name as $name){
        $type = $name['type'];
        $category = $name['category'];

        echo "Type: $type Category: $category<br>";
        // AND TO get the text, haven't figuered it out yet.. <name ..="" ..="">text</name>
    }

But it doesn't work. Don't get any errors neither any output. Any ideas?

EDIT: OK. I changed foreach($xml->name as $name)

to foreach($xml->lesson->name as $name)

so I get the values of the attribute. But now I don't know how to get the value of the children. I've tried this: $xml->lesson->children()

It prints children()

SOLVED: $text = $xml->lesson->children(); echo $text;

PROBLEM WAS: I'm using utf-8 in my other code but didn't change it.

@MuthuKumaran I think this is one of those questions that is legitimately implied. Short code sample, it doesn't output anything, what's wrong? — Seth Battin
– Seth Battin, Commented Oct 26, 2012 at 3:57
Probably because $xml refers to <lessons>, not <lesson>? — Passerby
– Passerby, Commented Oct 26, 2012 at 4:00

Seth Battin · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-26 04:12:32Z

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Edit : this part related to a question typo. If you copied your xml directly from where you were editting it, then part of the problem might be that it is malformed. You have an opening <lessons> but you appear to wrongly try to close it with </lesson>.

Also, depending on your root node settings, ->name may or may not be a child of the $xml object. Can you post a var_dump() of it and get some clues?

edited Oct 26, 2012 at 4:12

answered Oct 26, 2012 at 4:00

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3 Comments

Kilise Over a year ago

I'm sorry it's being closed with </lessons> Just I who wrote it wrong here.

Seth Battin Over a year ago

@Kilise how about that var_dump()? :)

Kilise Over a year ago

Solved it. It should be: foreach($xml->lesson->name as $name)

Siva · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-26 04:12:36Z

I think, there is some problem in your xml.

-> You have to close lessons tag correctly.Because you have entered </lesson> (see last line) instead of </lessons>. If you start any tag, you should use the same tag name while closing..

you can use this code to extract values from your xml,

<?php

$xmlstring='<lessons>
    <lesson level="1" course="2">
                 <name type="Dog" category="Animals">Dog name</name>
          </lesson>
</lessons>';

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstring);
$ATTRIBUTE=array();
$counter = 0;
foreach($xml->children() as $key=>$child)
  {
    $counter++;
    $ATTRIBUTE[$counter]["type"]=$child->name->attributes()->type;
    $ATTRIBUTE[$counter]["category"]=$child->name->attributes()->category;
    $ATTRIBUTE[$counter]["value"]= $child->name;
  }

echo "<pre>";
print_r($ATTRIBUTE);
?>

here you will get everything in array. So you can fetch based on your requirement.

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