Question

so i have this XML: the result of var_dump

string '
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<data>
<entry key="message Type">
<![
    CDATA[
        urgent
    ]
]></entry><entry key="message Title"><![
    CDATA[
        teswt
    ]
]></entry><entry key="message Body"><![
    CDATA[
        teasd
    ]
]></entry><entry key="message Priority"><![
    CDATA[
        1
    ]
]></entry></data>
' (length=260)

my code looks like this:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($tablerow['data']);
$inputs = $xml->xpath("/schema/user_input[@type!='hidden']/input|/schema/input");
foreach($inputs as $cur_input) {

        $cur_input_name = (string)$cur_input['name'];
        $cur_input_value = $task_input_values[$cur_input_name];
        $input_name = isset($cur_input['label']) ? (string)$cur_input['label'] : $cur_input['name'];
}
        var_dump($tablerow['data']);

$tablerow['data'] is the XML from the DB. any help how to get the message Title value from this??

Thanks!

Answer 1

The XPath expression you are using doesn’t even resemble the XML document you posted, so I don’t know how you would expect to ever find the values you are looking for. The following will extract “teswt” from your sample XML document:

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_string($tablerow['data']);
$title = '';

foreach ($xml->entry as $entry) {
    if ((string) $entry['key'] == 'message Title') {
        $title = (string) $entry;
        break;
    }
}

echo $title;
?>

Edit: Updated to use the SimpleXML “style” rather than XPath.