{"id":333,"date":"2014-03-15T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T12:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:37:41","slug":"simple-php-xml-parser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/php\/simple-php-xml-parser\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple PHP XML parser using SimpleXML"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say you have a simple XML file books.xml<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0that looks like this:<\/p>\n

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r\n<books>\r\n\t<book>\r\n\t\t<author>\r\n\t\t\t<name>Nikola<\/name>\r\n\t\t\t<surname>Bre\u017enjak<\/surname>\r\n\t\t<\/author>\r\n\t\t<title>Some awesome book title<\/title>\r\n\t\t<year>2014<\/year>\r\n\t<\/book>\r\n\r\n\t<book>\r\n\t\t<author>\r\n\t\t\t<name>Patrick<\/name>\r\n\t\t\t<surname>Rothfuss<\/surname>\r\n\t\t<\/author>\r\n\t\t<title>Doors of stone<\/title>\r\n\t\t<year>20xx<\/year>\r\n\t<\/book>\r\n<\/books><\/pre>\n
and you want to get all the names of the authors, you can use SimpleXML<\/a>:<\/p>\n
<?php\r\n\t$xml = simplexml_load_file(\"books.xml\");\r\n\tvar_dump($xml);\r\n\r\n\t$data = array();\r\n\tforeach ($xml as $book){\r\n\t\t$data[] = (string)$book->author->name;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\tvar_dump($data);\r\n?><\/pre>\n
The output in this case will look like this:
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