Question

I try the search code below but it is only showing the first child node. Is something missing from my code?

—-catalog.xml—-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Catalog>
    <Category>
        <Name>CAT1</Name>
        <Location>
            <Room>Alpha</Room>
        </Location>
        <Location>
            <Room>Bravo</Room>
        </Location>  
        <Location>
            <Room>Charlie</Room>
        </Location>  
    </Category>
    <Category>
        <Name>CAT2</Name>
        <Location>
            <Room>Delta</Room>
        </Location>  
        <Location>
            <Room>Eagle</Room>
        </Location>  
        <Location>
            <Room>Falcon</Room>
        </Location>  
    </Category>
</Catalog>

—-arr0.php—-

<?php
$catalog = simplexml_load_file("catalog.xml");
$category = $catalog->Category;

foreach($category->Name as $name)
{
    $menu = (string)$name;
    $i = 0;
    if ($menu == "CAT1" )
{
        echo $category->Location->Room[$i];
        $i++;       
}
else 
{
        echo "No result";
}
}
?>

———Output———-

Alpha

---

Bravo and Charlie is missing from display. Need someone advise where am I missing something?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think this is what you want

<?php
$catalog = simplexml_load_file("catalog.xml");
$category = $catalog->Category;
$found = false;
foreach($category as $c)
{
    $menu = (string) ($c->Name);
    if ($menu == "CAT1" )
    {
        foreach ($c->Location as $loc)
        {
            echo $loc->Room;
        }
        $found = true; break;
    }
}
if (!$found)
{
    echo "No result";
}
?>

Remove the break; statement if you can have more than one Category with the searched Name element.