Hi List
I am sending this to the list again with a bit more information in the hope I
can get some help.
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 have spent ages searching Google and looking at XML parser examples. Now I am
more confused than ever.
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. It is important for this
application to not only get the data contained between beginning and end tags
but also the attributes as they contain important data returned from the server.
I am the first to admit that PHP XML Parsing has me lost.
One other question I do have is that all of the examples I have seen, using the
xml_parser, seem to be designed around a file being read into the parser. Is it
possible for the XML data to be contained in a variable and then used in the
parser?
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.
Regards,
Richard Luckhurst
Product Development
Exodus Systems - Sydney, Australia.
rluckhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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