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timw07
timw07

Reputation: 339

Parsing complex XML using PHP

I have the following complex, not quite well-structured XML:

<event hometeam="K.Kanepi" awayteam="S.Lisicki" eventName="K.Kanepi-S.Lisicki" date="02/07/2013" time="14:05" datetime="2013-07-02T14:05:00+02:00">
    <subevent title="Match odds" dsymbol="MATCH_ODDS">
        <selection name="home" odds="3.1500" slipURL="URI/en/add-bet/3187-02072013,1"/>
        <selection name="away" odds="1.3500" slipURL="URI/en/add-bet/3187-02072013,2"/>
    </subevent>

I'm trying to parse it using this code:

$total_games = $xml->event->count();

for ($i = 0; $i < $total_games; $i++) {
    echo $xml->event[$i]->subevent.title;

$total games works correctly; however - when I try to parse subevent, I'm unsuccessful in getting the eventName, hometeam, date, etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1361

Answers (1)

Sean Bright
Sean Bright

Reputation: 120644

To access attributes, you need to use array subscripting instead of class member syntax. This works for me using your XML as input:

<?
    $xml = simplexml_load_file('http://some.url.here/gimme.xml');

    $total_games = $xml->event->count();

    for ($i = 0; $i < $total_games; $i++) {
        echo $xml->event[$i]->subevent['title'];
        //       Note the syntax here ^^^^^^^^^
    }
?>

PHP's Basic SimpleXML usage page is a good resource in this case.

Upvotes: 5

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