Question

Hey guys, I want to parse some xml but I don’t know how I can get the same tags out of 1 element.

I want to parse this:

<profile>
   <name>john</name>
   <lang>english</lang>
   <lang>dutch</lang>
</profile>

So I want to parse the languages that john speaks. how can I do that ?

Answer 1

You can run a foreach loop over the element node after you’ve pulled it in with SimpleXML like so:

$xml_profiles = simplexml_load_file($file_profiles);

foreach($xml_profiles->profile as $profile)
{   //-- first foreach pulls out each profile node

    foreach($profile->lang as $lang_spoken)
    {   //-- will pull out each lang node into a variable called $lang_spoken
        echo $lang_spoken;
    }
}

This has the benefit of being able to handle any number of lang elements you may have or not have for each profile element.