Question

I have an XML file which is as follows. I want to parse this XML file using PHP.

<id_list>
    -
    <ids>
        <id>195002349</id>
        <id>374487611</id>
        <id>192983648</id>
        <id>168378766</id>`
        <id>161573001</id>
    </ids>

    <next_cursor>0</next_cursor>
    <previous_cursor>0</previous_cursor>
</id_list>

I want the output in the form:

Id1=195002349 Id2=374487611 Id3=192983648 Id4=168378766 Id5=161573001

Answer 1

When reading the XML (with SimpleXMLElement($file)), use XPath to search for “ids”, and do a while loop to read the element`s text.

Like so:

$notes = new SimpleXMLElement('test2.xml', NULL, true);
$all = array();
$results = $notes->xpath("/id_list/ids/id");
foreach($results as $to){
    echo "<br>".$to;
    $all[]=(string)$to;
}

print_r($all);