Question

I have a question regarding reading an xml file with php.
I have a sample php file:

///file.xml

 <appender name="app1">
      <param name="param1"></param>
 </appender>

Now i want to get the value of the param name. I have this code.

function getURL($aURL){

$objDOM = new DOMDocument();

////the file.xml    
$objDOM->load($aURL);  
$note = $objDOM->getElementsByTagName("appender");

foreach ( $note as $value)  {
    ///First try
    $name = $value->getElementsByTagName("name")->firstChild->nodeValue;

    ///Second try
    ///$logName = $value->getElementsByTagName("name");
    ///$name = $logName->item(0)->nodeValue;

}

}

For my First and Second try both returns empty. Does not give the
“app1” value.

Can someone help me on this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

The name of the tag is param and the name of the attribute is name:

$name = $value->getElementsByTagName("param")->firstChild->getAttribute('name')->nodeValue;