Question

I’m trying to get a product list for a client from a webservices xml file over to an SQL databse using a little php script, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

The relevant code is as follows:

$c = 0;  
...
$xml = simplexml_load_file($completeurl);
$listingsArray = $xml->listings->listing;

foreach($listingsArray as $listing){
    $addition[0] = $listing[$c]->type;
    $addition[1] = $listing[$c]->condition;
    //etcetera
    c = c + 1;
}

The XML file is formated like:

<inventory>
    <listings>
        <listing>
            //tags for type, condition, etc
        </listing>
    </listings>
</inventory>

$completeurl is a string that contains the url of the xml file
$addition is an array that’s defined earlier in the code

I’ve been working on this for a while now, but I can’t seem to figure out where the error is in my code. The problem that I’m having is that $listingsArray should have close to 100 elements in it, but is constantly coming up with 0. Anybody see what I’m doing wrong?

EDIT: I tried changing

$listingsArray = $xml->listings->listing;

to

$listingsArray = $xml->listings;

But empty strings are still being written to the $addition array. A var_dump of listingsArray show that all of the information is in there, though.

Answer 1

changing

$listingsArray = $xml->listings->listing;

to

$listingsArray = $xml->listings;

Should solve the issue. You set $listingsArray to the array of listings, then the foreach tries to go down another level