CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpxmlsimplexml
user3570028
user3570028

Reputation: 5

About SimpleXML's foreach

what's wrong here? I want load a list of 10 items, but they are the same. Why? 

<?php 

$xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml');

$name = $xml->item->title;

foreach($xml -> item as $item){
    echo "$name<br>";
}

?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 41885

No, you're not accessing the values inside the loop:

$name = $xml->item->title; // NOT THIS!
foreach($xml->item as $item){
    // access `$item` inside this loop
    echo $item->title . '<br/>';
    // echo "$name<br/>"; // you're accessing that item outside the loop
}

Additional question:

Just trim the title with the numbering:

$i = 1;
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://store.steampowered.com/feeds/weeklytopsellers.xml', null, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
foreach($xml->item as $item){
    // $trimmed_title = ltrim($item->title, "#$i - ");
    $trimmed_title = str_replace("#$i - ", '', $item->title);
    echo $trimmed_title. '<br/>';
    $i++;
}

Upvotes: 2

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