Question

I have the url to web service which returns some xml data. I need to load this xml data and include only the value of the date tag on my site. How can this be done?

this is the url which returns xml:

http://www.islamicfinder.org/prayer_service.php?country=usa&city=new_york&state=NY&zipcode=10006&latitude=40.7092&longitude=-74.0128&timezone=-5&HanfiShafi=1&pmethod=5&fajrTwilight1=10&fajrTwilight2=10&ishaTwilight=10&ishaInterval=30&dhuhrInterval=1&maghribInterval=1&dayLight=1&simpleFormat=xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<prayer>
    <fajr>4:12</fajr>
    <sunrise>5:43</sunrise>
    <dhuhr>1:03</dhuhr>
    <asr>5:00</asr>
    <maghrib>8:22</maghrib>
    <isha>9:54</isha>
    <date>July 21, 2012</date>
    <hijri>2 Ramadan 1433</hijri>
    <city>New York</city>
    <country>Usa</country>
    <website>www.IslamicFinder.org</website>
</prayer> 

Answer 1

Try using PHP’s SimpleXMLElement

<?php
  $url = 'http://www.islamicfinder.org/prayer_service.php?country=usa&city=new_york&state=NY&zipcode=10006&latitude=40.7092&longitude=-74.0128&timezone=-5&HanfiShafi=1&pmethod=5&fajrTwilight1=10&fajrTwilight2=10&ishaTwilight=10&ishaInterval=30&dhuhrInterval=1&maghribInterval=1&dayLight=1&simpleFormat=xml';
  $result = new SimpleXMLElement($url, NULL, true);
  echo $result->date;
?>

The NULL means we’re not passing any options. True means we’re getting the data from a URL. Check out the arguments here.