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Shamoon
Shamoon

Reputation: 43491

simplexml_load_string not creating an object

My XML is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <soap:Body>
      <FindOrders xmlns="http://www.JOI.com/schemas/ViaSub.WMS/">
         <orders>
            <order>
               <MarkForName />
               <BatchOrderID />
               <CreationDate>2013-08-09T17:41:00</CreationDate>
               <EarliestShipDate />
               <ShipCancelDate />
               <PickupDate />
               <Carrier>USPS</Carrier>
               <BillingCode>Prepaid</BillingCode>
               <TotWeight>0.00</TotWeight>
               <TotCuFt>0.00</TotCuFt>
               <TotPackages>1.0000</TotPackages>
               <TotOrdQty>1.0000</TotOrdQty>
               <TotLines>1.00</TotLines>
               <Notes />
               <OverAllocated />
               <PickTicketPrintDate />
               <ProcessDate />
               <TrackingNumber />
               <LoadNumber />
               <BillOfLading />
               <MasterBillOfLading />
               <ASNSentDate />
               <ConfirmASNSentDate />
               <RememberRowInfo>398879:12:2:::0:False</RememberRowInfo>
            </order>
         </orders>
      </FindOrders>
      <totalOrders xmlns="http://www.JOI.com/schemas/ViaSub.WMS/">1</totalOrders>
   </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

When I do:

$a = simplexml_load_string($str);

print_r($a);

I get: SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) instead of an object with all of those parameters. Why is this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1963

Answers (3)

Yamen Ashraf
Yamen Ashraf

Reputation: 2950

My case was dealing with soap response. I have to parse and clean it first before converting it to array.

$response = preg_replace("/(<\/?)(\w+):([^>]*>)/", "$1$2$3", $xml); // remove all colons and unnecessary characters.
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
$body = $xml->xpath('//sBody'); // should refer to soap body element like soapbody, sbody, etc..
$array = json_decode(json_encode((array)$body), TRUE);

Upvotes: 0

Nabil Kadimi
Nabil Kadimi

Reputation: 10384

You are missing the namespace declaration (php manual) for SOAP

$a = simplexml_load_string($str);
$a->registerXPathNamespace('soap', 'http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope');

$result = $a->xpath('//soap:Body');

print_r($result);

Result (preview)

Array
(
    [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [FindOrders] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                (
                    [orders] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                        (
                            [order] => SimpleXMLElement Object
  ...
  ...

Upvotes: 2

JRizz
JRizz

Reputation: 226

I'm guessing when you say you want to see an object with all those parameters, you're looking to output the xml document you just created.

Looking at the documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.asxml.php, here's what you need to do:

echo $a->asXML();

Upvotes: 0

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