Question

Im using simplexml to bring in a data feed, and now i want to put that into working varables to use in my php doc.

Following the php.net guides on simplexml ive arrived at

<?php
    $xml = simplexml_load_file('f1_feed.xml');

    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);

    echo $xml->response->williamhill->class->type->market[0]->name;
?>

but i keep getting a blank page, have i completely missed to point of how to parse the xml and put it into a working var ?

(feed is local for development)

Answer 1

you don’t need both new SimpleXMLElement and simplexml_load_file:

• simplexml_load_file Returns an object of class SimpleXMLElement
• SimpleXMLElement Returns a SimpleXMLElement object

try:

  if (file_exists('f1_feed.xml')) {
      $xml = simplexml_load_file('f1_feed.xml');    
      print_r($xml);
  } else {
      exit('Failed to open f1_feed.xml.');
  }

or:

if (file_exists('f1_feed.xml')) {
     $xml = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents('f1_feed.xml'));
     echo $xml->response->williamhill->class->type->market[0]->name;
} else {
     exit('Failed to open f1_feed.xml.');
}

if it still doesn’t work, add

  error_reporting(E_ALL);
  ini_set("display_errors", 1);

for better error reporting