Question

I am using a formbuilder plugin in WordPress which submits the form input to the database as XML data. Now I would like to fetch that data and have it displayed in another page. I have started trying simpleXML to achieve this but now I have hit a road bump.

The XML data that appears in each row of the database follows this format:

<form>
    <FormSubject>Report</FormSubject>
    <FormRecipient>****@***.com</FormRecipient>
    <Name>admin</Name>
    <Department>test</Department>
    <Value>1000</Value>
    <Comments>test</Comments>
    <Page>http://***.com</Page>
    <Referrer>http://****.com</Referrer>
</form>

I have previously managed to fetch the data that I need using simpleXML from an XML string of the same markup which is in the database but now my question is, how do I do this with a loop for each row in the database?

When the following code is run, wordpress displays a blank page meaning that there is an error:

<?php
global $wpdb;
$statistics = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM wpformbuilder_results WHERE form_id = '00000000000000000001';");
echo "<table>";
foreach($statistics as $statistic){
$string = $statistic->xmldata
$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
$Name = (string) $xml->Name;
$Department = (string) $xml->Department;
$Value = (string) $xml->Value;
$Comments = (string) $xml->Comments;

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>".$statistic->timestamp."</td>";
echo "<td>".$Name."</td>";
echo "<td>".$Department."</td>";
echo "<td>".$Value."</td>";
echo "<td>".$Comments."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

?>

Answer 1

I fixed it by stripping the backslashes from the XML string using stripslashes()