On 30 Oct 2013, at 13:43, leam hall <leamhall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to work on an XML document and turn it into something I can put
> into a database or array. Am getting stuck as I try to learn the PHP stuff
> needed for XML.
>
> What I have so far is just:
>
> $xml = simplexml_load_file('my-file.xml');
>
> $status = $xml->status;
> echo "status is $status.\n";
>
> $href = $xml->reference->href;
> echo "href is $href.\n";
>
> Which gives:
>
> status is accepted.
> href is .
>
>
> If I do:
>
> print_r($xml);
>
> It starts out with:
>
> SimpleXMLElement Object
> (
> [@attributes] => Array
> (
> [id] => My_Info
> )
>
> [status] => accepted
> [title] => Nice long string title
> [reference] => SimpleXMLElement Object
> (
> [@attributes] => Array
> (
> [href] => http://www.example.com
> )
>
> )
>
>
>
> How do I reference the nested objects? The file is fairly long and seems
> deeply nested.
The value you’re trying to retrieve is an attribute, and can be accessed using the attributes method: http://php.net/simplexmlelement.attributes
-Stuart
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