How to parse xml output - php

I want to get the content text of an xml output. How do I parse this in php? Please see code below.
<xml>
<ToUserName><![CDATA[toUser]]></ToUserName>
<FromUserName><![CDATA[fromUser]]></FromUserName>
<CreateTime>1348831860</CreateTime>
<MsgType><![CDATA[text]]></MsgType>
<Content><![CDATA[this is a test]]></Content>
<MsgId>1234567890123456</MsgId>
</xml>

Try this :
$x = '<xml>
<ToUserName><![CDATA[toUser]]></ToUserName>
<FromUserName><![CDATA[fromUser]]></FromUserName>
<CreateTime>1348831860</CreateTime>
<MsgType><![CDATA[text]]></MsgType>
<Content><![CDATA[this is a test]]></Content>
<MsgId>1234567890123456</MsgId>
</xml>';
$xml = simplexml_load_string($x) or die("Error: Cannot create object");
print_r($xml);

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php : xml node content edit and return xml

Here is my XML<response> <statusCode>200</statusCode> <statusText>OK</statusText> <data> <getAssetResponse> <assetId>89898</assetId> <content> some text with HTML content </content> </getAssetResponse> </data></response>
In my php, I need to replace content node substr (HTML with xhtml) and return the XML with same structure.
<?php $file = file_get_contents("filx.xml"); $doc = DOMDocument::loadXML($file); $data = $dom->getElementsByTagName("data"); foreach($data as $node){echo "hello";}
my simple start isn't working...What do i need to do to get the node content?
If you only need to replace the content of the content-node, it is maybe easier to use SimpleXML, like this:
<?
$xml_object = simplexml_load_file("test.xml");
$xml_object->data->getAssetResponse->content = "Test 123";
print $xml_object->asXML();
?>
Result:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<response>
<statusCode>200</statusCode>
<statusText>OK</statusText>
<data>
<getAssetResponse>
<assetId>89898</assetId>
<content>Test 123</content>
</getAssetResponse>
</data>
</response>

Hide XML declaration in files generated using PHP

I was tesing with a simple example of how to display XML in browser using PHP and found this example which works good
<?php
$xml = new DOMDocument("1.0");
$root = $xml->createElement("data");
$xml->appendChild($root);
$id = $xml->createElement("id");
$idText = $xml->createTextNode('1');
$id->appendChild($idText);
$title = $xml->createElement("title");
$titleText = $xml->createTextNode('Valid');
$title->appendChild($titleText);
$book = $xml->createElement("book");
$book->appendChild($id);
$book->appendChild($title);
$root->appendChild($book);
$xml->formatOutput = true;
echo "<xmp>". $xml->saveXML() ."</xmp>";
$xml->save("mybooks.xml") or die("Error");
?>
It produces the following output:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<data>
<book>
<id>1</id>
<title>Valid</title>
</book>
</data>
Now I have got two questions regarding how the output should look like.
The first line in the xml file '', should not be displayed, that is it should be hidden
How can I display the TextNode in the next line. In total I am exepecting an output in this fashion
<data>
<book>
<id>1</id>
<title>
Valid
</title>
</book>
</data>
Is that possible to get the desired output, if so how can I accomplish that.
Thanks
To skip the XML declaration you can use the result of saveXML on the root node:
$xml_content = $xml->saveXML($root);
file_put_contents("mybooks.xml", $xml_content) or die("cannot save XML");
Please note that saveXML(node) has a different output from saveXML().
First question:
here is my post where all usable threads with answers are listed: How do you exclude the XML prolog from output?
Second question:
I don't know of any PHP function that outputs text nodes like that.
You could:
read xml using DomDocument and save each node as string
iterate trough nodes
detect text nodes and add new lines to xml string manually
At the end you would have the same XML with text node values in new line:
<node>
some text data
</node>

How do I parse an individual entry from XML using PHP?

I am trying to parse an individual element from an XML string using PHP. The issue is that this individual element occurs before the entries start. The XML is below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed gd:kind="shopping#products" gd:etag=""lm_25heFT8yiumci9EH1kItJBpg/Sj5O9aXZ82PKpx3N2C3uQYMhNYE"" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:s="http://www.google.com/shopping/api/schemas/2010">
<openSearch:totalResults>64</openSearch:totalResults>
<openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
<openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
<entry >...</entry>
<entry >...</entry>
</feed>
I am trying to parse out the "64" in the opensearch:totalResults tag. How do I this and assign it to a variable in php? I tried:
$url = 'url of xml feed';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
$entries =$xml->entry[0]->openSearch:totalResults;
// also tried $entries =$xml->openSearch:totalResults;
echo $entries;
but it's not working. Any advice?
You need to register namespace in order to access these nodes:
$xml = simplexml_load_file('file.xml');
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('os', 'http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/');
$nodes = $xml->xpath('os:totalResults');
$totalResults = (string)$nodes[0];
You can also use http://it1.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.children.php (using the $ns parameter)
that is less resource intensive.

get one value from xml document in php

I have a php variable that contains xml code. I would like to get only one value from that xml and go along.
The xml is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <response> <status>SUCCESS</status> <data><count>1</count> <subscriberlist> <item> <subscriberid>4</subscriberid> <emailaddress>bbbbbb#bbbbbb.bb</emailaddress> <format>h</format> <subscribedate>1314903006</subscribedate> <confirmed>1</confirmed> <unsubscribed>0</unsubscribed> <bounced>0</bounced> <listid>3</listid> </item> </subscriberlist></data></response>
I would like to create the var $subscriberid and get the value (in this case 4)
Can someone explain me?
This doc on php.net will tell you how: http://php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php
For the following xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<response>
<status>SUCCESS</status>
<data>
<count>1</count>
<subscriberlist>
<item>
<subscriberid>4</subscriberid>
<emailaddress>bbbbbb#bbbbbb.bb</emailaddress>
<format>h</format>
<subscribedate>1314903006</subscribedate>
<confirmed>1</confirmed>
<unsubscribed>0</unsubscribed>
<bounced>0</bounced>
<listid>3</listid>
</item>
</subscriberlist>
</data>
</response>
If the xml was inside of $xmlstr then to get the subscriberid you would need the following php code:
<?php
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
$subscriberid = $xml->data->subscriberlist->item->subscriberid;
?>
You can use simplexml_load_string then parse the data
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_string('<?xml vers...');
$subscriberid = $xml->data->subscriberlist->item->subscriberid;
?>

Remove a xml node in php

my xml file:
<temporary>
<users>
<temp>
<id>1</id>
<title> Undercover</title>
<author>Wiwit</author>
</temp>
<nissi>
<confirm>3977678bce8515e8cdbfa64850904ad1</confirm>
<firstname>hi</firstname>
<lastname>hhey</lastname>
<day>1</day>
</nissi>
</users>
</temporary>
my php:
<?php
$user="nissi";
$xml = simplexml_load_file("temporary.xml")
or die("Error: Cannot create object");
unset($xml->temporary->users->$user);
?>
Why is this not working.
The unset is not working.The node ins'nt getting deleted.
It works like this :
$user="nissi";
$xml = simplexml_load_file("temporary.xml")
or die("Error: Cannot create object");
unset($xml->users->$user);
echo $xml->asXML();
You mustn't take the root of your xml in the "request" temporary here.
DEMO HERE
You cannot do it with SimpleXML alone, you have to use DOMElement conversion as explained here:
Remove a child with a specific attribute, in SimpleXML for PHP

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