Question

i am not the best at php but have made it this far. what i am trying to do is get the first child of the xml file… i have worked out how to do the foreach and get every result but i put in the following code and just get a blank page

                $url = file_get_contents("http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=house");
                $xml = simplexml_load_string($url);

                $seriesid = $xml->series->seriesid;
                echo $seriesid;

i can do this with no issue

                $url = file_get_contents("http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=house");
                $xml = simplexml_load_string($url);
                foreach($xml->children() as $child) {
                  echo '<div>Series ID: '.$child->seriesid.'</div>';
                  echo '<div>Series Name: '.$child->SeriesName.'</div>';
                  echo '<div>Language: '.$child->language.'</div>';
                  echo '<div>First Aired: '.$child->FirstAired.'</div>';
                  echo '<div>Overview: '.$child->Overview.'</div>';
                }

Answer 1

You should use $xml->Series[0]->seriesid insted …

Note

$xml->Series is an array that has so many children and the first array key is 0

So $xml->Series[0] is the first array and you can now pick any object in the array

Demo : http://codepad.viper-7.com/KVJWAI

I hope this helps