Question

Normally the XML files I have to parse are like this:

<row id="1">
    <title>widget<title>
    <color>blue<color>
    <price>five<price>
</row>

Which I would then parse like this:

$xmlstr_widget = file_get_contents($my_xml_feed);
$feed_widget = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr_widget);

foreach($feed_widget as $name) {
    $title = $name->title;
    $color = $name->color;
    $price = $price->price;
  }

Works great! But now I have xml in a bit different format and I am a little stumped since I don’t have a whole lot of xml parsing experience:

<Widget Title="large" Color="blue" Price="five"/>
<Widget Title="small" Color="red" Price="ten"/>

How do I drill into that a little further and get it parsed properly? I have tried a few things but no success.

So the problem is when I try something like below with the different xml feed, I cannot echo any results.

foreach($feed_widget as $name) {
    $title = $name->title;
    $color = $name->color;
    $price = $price->price;
  }

Answer 1

You need to use the attributes() of the element.

For example, you’d want to do

$feed_widget -> attributes() -> Color;

would give you “blue”

Resource: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_attributes.asp