Retrieve the node values from the “note.xml” file:
| <?php $xml=simplexml_load_file(“note.xml”) or die(“Error: Cannot create object”); echo $xml->to . “<br>”; echo $xml->from . “<br>”; echo $xml->heading . “<br>”; echo $xml->body; ?> |
The output of the code above will be:
| Tove Jani Reminder Don’t forget me this weekend! |
Assume we have an XML file named “books.xml” with the following content:
| <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <bookstore> <book category=”COOKING”> <title lang=”en”>Everyday Italian</title> <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author> <year>2005</year> <price>30.00</price> </book> <book category=”CHILDREN”> <title lang=”en”>Harry Potter</title> <author>J K. Rowling</author> <year>2005</year> <price>29.99</price> </book> <book category=”WEB”> <title lang=”en-us”>XQuery Kick Start</title> <author>James McGovern</author> <year>2003</year> <price>49.99</price> </book> <book category=”WEB”> <title lang=”en-us”>Learning XML</title> <author>Erik T. Ray</author> <year>2003</year> <price>39.95</price> </book> </bookstore> |
The following example retrieves the node values of the <title> element from the first and second <book> elements in the “books.xml” file:
| <?php $xml=simplexml_load_file(“books.xml”) or die(“Error: Cannot create object”); echo $xml->book[0]->title . “<br>”; echo $xml->book[1]->title; ?> |
The output of the code above will be:
| Everyday Italian Harry Potter |
The following example iterates through all the <book> elements in the “books.xml” file and retrieves the node values for the <title>, <author>, <year>, and <price> elements:
| <?php $xml=simplexml_load_file(“books.xml”) or die(“Error: Cannot create object”); foreach($xml->children() as $books) { echo $books->title . “, “; echo $books->author . “, “; echo $books->year . “, “; echo $books->price . “<br>”; } ?> |
The output of the code above will be:
| Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis, 2005, 30.00 Harry Potter, J K. Rowling, 2005, 29.99 XQuery Kick Start, James McGovern, 2003, 49.99 Learning XML, Erik T. Ray, 2003, 39.95 |
The following example retrieves the value of the “category” attribute from the first <book> element and the value of the “lang” attribute from the <title> element in the second <book> element:
| <?php $xml=simplexml_load_file(“books.xml”) or die(“Error: Cannot create object”); echo $xml->book[0][‘category’] . “<br>”; echo $xml->book[1]->title[‘lang’]; ?> |
The output of the code above will be:
| COOKING en |
The following example retrieves the attribute values of the <title> elements in the “books.xml” file:
| <?php $xml=simplexml_load_file(“books.xml”) or die(“Error: Cannot create object”); foreach($xml->children() as $books) { echo $books->title[‘lang’]; echo “<br>”; } ?> |
The output of the code above will be:
| en en en-us en-us |