Question

XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<lessons>
    <lesson level="1" course="2">
                 <name type="Dog" category="Animals">Dog name</name>
          </lesson>
</lessons>

I want to get the values saved like this:

$type = "Dog";
$category = "Animals";
$name = "dog name";

This is what I’ve done:

    foreach($xml->name as $name){
        $type = $name['type'];
        $category = $name['category'];

        echo "Type: $type Category: $category<br>";
        // AND TO get the text, haven't figuered it out yet.. <name ..="" ..="">text</name>
    }

But it doesn’t work. Don’t get any errors neither any output. Any ideas?

EDIT:
OK. I changed foreach($xml->name as $name)

to foreach($xml->lesson->name as $name)

so I get the values of the attribute. But now I don’t know how to get the value of the children.
I’ve tried this: $xml->lesson->children()

It prints children()

SOLVED: $text = $xml->lesson->children();
echo $text;

PROBLEM WAS: I’m using utf-8 in my other code but didn’t change it.

Answer 1

Edit : this part related to a question typo. If you copied your xml directly from where you were editting it, then part of the problem might be that it is malformed. You have an opening <lessons> but you appear to wrongly try to close it with </lesson>.

Also, depending on your root node settings, ->name may or may not be a child of the $xml object. Can you post a var_dump() of it and get some clues?