Re: parse string

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Am Donnerstag, den 19.01.2006, 13:51 -0600 schrieb Richard Lynch:
> On Thu, January 19, 2006 12:08 pm, Ron Eggler (Paykiosks) wrote:
> > <cardSKU category="Local Dial Tone/Telephone Service"
> > distributor="EWI"
> > discontinued="false" cardtype="PIN" transactionType="PURC">
> .
> .
> .
> > </cardSKU>
> > [/xml]
> >
> > and I wanna read information out of it by:
> > [php]
> > $xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
> > /* a few other things like parsing xml that works fine */
> > foreach ($xml->cardSKU as $cardSKU)
> >   {
> >   array_push($category,(string)$cardSKU['category']);
> >   }
> > [/php]
> > but it seems not to work, the array $category stays empty, why that?
> 
> It's pretty much the same problem you posted yesterday...
> 
> category is going to be the $key of the array, not the value.
> 
> echo "<pre>xml->cardSKU:<br />\n";
> var_dump($xml->cardSKU);
> echo "<hr />\n";
> foreach($xml->cardSKU as $key => $cardSKU){
>   echo "key: $key<br />\n"
>   var_dump($cardSKU);
>   echo "<hr />\n";
> }
> 
> When you don't get the data you expect, use var_dump() on the data
> BEFORE that to see where the bits you want exist -- You'll usually
> find that they array/key/value/object structure has what you want,
> just in different places than you were looking.
> 
Sorry, I can' really get it :( 
I inserted your code and got this:
[html]
<pre>xml->cardSKU:<br />
object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (0) {
}
<hr />
[/html]
shouldn't there be listed all elements of 'category'?
Thanks again and sorry if I'm driving you crazy by that but it's the really first time I'm doing something like that...

__________________________________________

Ron Eggler
Intern 
866-999-4179
www.paykiosks.net

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