Javier Ruiz wrote:
Hi all,
So I want to do...
$xmlDatabase = new SimpleXMLElement($myXML);
foreach ($xmlDatabase as $oneTable)
{
if ($oneTable['name'] == 'two')
{
/// ---- HERE I WANT TO DELETE THE $oneTable NODE
unset($oneTable); // <-- and this doesn't work...
}
}
any ideas?
The answer is simple, everybody else seems to have missed it. foreach()
makes a copy of the array before working on it. Changes made to
$oneTable would obviously never affect the original. You're just
unsetting a temporary variable that's going to be overwritten next time
through the loop anyhow.
You should have better luck with this code:
$xmlDatabase = new SimpleXMLElement($myXML);
foreach ($xmlDatabase as $key => $oneTable)
{
if ($oneTable['name'] == 'two')
{
/// ---- HERE I WANT TO DELETE THE $oneTable NODE
unset($xmlDatabase[$key]);
}
}
What that is doing is having foreach also get the key of the array
element that $oneTable represents. It then does the unset() on the
original table instead of the copy. Remember that all array elements
have keys, even if you didn't set one or it doesn't look like they
should. In this case, you don't know what the key is internally, and you
don't care either.
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