Question

Using Wikipedia API link to get some basic informations about some world known characters.

Example : (About Richard Maibaum)

This would show as following

Now my question I’d like to parse the xml to get such basic informations between <search></search> to show it.

here is the code i’m willing to use if it right ~ thanks to ccKep ~

<?PHP
ini_set("user_agent","Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");

$url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&list=search&srsearch=Richard Maibaum&srlimit=1";

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);

$extracts = $xml->xpath("/api/query/search");

echo $extracts["0"];
?>

But it failed and gives blank output

So any help ~ thanks

Answer 1

I am not sure what is your problem, but you can get your search results like this.

 strip_tags($extracts[0]->p['snippet']));