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Hi List
I am working owards completing a rather urgent project for one of our
clients.
There is a requirement to send a request to a server and I now have that
working
using cURL, thanks to help from this list. I now have the responses coming
back
as an XML response. What I need to do is to parse the XML response and break
it
up into either an array or variables so I can pass the returned responses
back
to a calling process.
I have spent most of last night and today looking at XML parsing and now am
totally confused. Some testing I have done suggests that SimpleXML is not
the
way to go however I am open to suggestions if it might be an answer. I would
appreciate any help or advice on how to parse this XML response and break it
up
into either an array or individual variables.
I have included a sample response from the server below. A few points to be
aware of,
1) In the fares section there could be any number of fares however each fare
will have a fareID and then the fareBases child.
2) In the tarifs section there could be any number of tarifs however each
tarif
will have a tarifId and then 1 or more fareXrefs.
3) In the vcrSummary section there could be 1 or more vcr entries
4) The response comes back as one long string and I have formatted this to
make
it a little easier to read.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?ypsilon RNGSchema="fareResponse.rnc" type="compact"?>
<fareResponse cntTarifs="122" offset="0">
<fares>
<fare fareId="11429927" fareType="PUB" checked="false" class="V"
depApt="SYD" dstApt="LON" paxType="ADT" vcr="OS" cos="E" yyFare="false"
avail="false">
<fareBases>
<fareBase pax="ADT">VLOX2</fareBase>
<fareBase pax="CHD">VLOX2</fareBase>
<fareBase pax="INF">VLOX2</fareBase>
</fareBases>
</fare>
<fare fareId="11429924" fareType="PUB" checked="false" class="M"
depApt="SYD" dstApt="LON" paxType="ADT" vcr="OS" cos="E" yyFare="false"
avail="false">
<fareBases>
<fareBase pax="ADT">MLOW2</fareBase>
<fareBase pax="CHD">MLOW2</fareBase>
<fareBase pax="INF">MLOW2</fareBase>
</fareBases>
</fare>
</fares>
<tarifs currency="USD">
<tarif tarifId="11429927" adtBuy="675.07" adtSell="675.07" chdBuy="
675.07" chdSell="675.07" infBuy="675.07" infSell="675.07" topCar="false"
topHotel="false">
<fareXRefs>
<fareXRef>11429927</fareXRef>
</fareXRefs>
</tarif>
<tarif tarifId="11429926" adtBuy="714.83" adtSell="714.83" chdBuy="
714.83" chdSell="714.83" infBuy="714.83" infSell="714.83" topCar="false"
topHotel="false">
<fareXRefs>
<fareXRef>11429926</fareXRef>
</fareXRefs>
</tarif>
</tarifs>
<taxes currency="USD">
<tax vcr="OS">201.52</tax>
</taxes>
<vcrSummary>
<vcr minPrice="1667" maxPrice="1667" totalTarifs="1"
currency="USD">AA</vcr>
<vcr minPrice="1374" maxPrice="4704" totalTarifs="2"
currency="USD">PR</vcr>
</vcrSummary>
</fareResponse>
I would certainly appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance.
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You can easily parse XML using "XML Parser Functions" or "DOM Functions"
available in PHP
Lots of classes have been written to parse xml using the above
libraries.Youcan easily search them on google.
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Regards
Fahad Pervaiz
www.ecommerce-xperts.com
(Shopping Cart, Web Design, SEO, VoIP)
