Get XML Attributes using PHP - php

Question

I want to get the URL of the image in . The XML document tree is as follow:
<rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>
<![CDATA[ The Star Online Business Highlights ]]>
</title>
<link>/TheStar/Website</link>
<description>...</description>
<image>...</image>
<language>en</language>
<item>
<guid isPermaLink="false">{F88B27DD-24FB-4807-941F-070D772B7586}</guid>
<link>
http://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2017/10/24/top-glove-says-not-buying-adventa-nor-supermax/
</link>
<title>
<![CDATA[ Top Glove says not buying Adventa nor Supermax ]]>
</title>
<description>
<![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR: Top Glove, which has allocated about RM1bil to expand via mergers, has denied news reports the target companies are Adventa Bhd and Supermax Corporation Bhd.]]>
</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:17:18 +08:00</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.thestar.com.my/~/media/online/2017/08/22/03/58/hartalega-glove3.ashx?crop=1&w=0&h=0&" length="" type="image/jpeg"/>
<media:content url="http://www.thestar.com.my/~/media/online/2017/08/22/03/58/hartalega-glove3.ashx?crop=1&w=0&h=0&" type="image/jpeg">
<media:description>
<![CDATA[ ]]>
</media:description>
</media:content>
<section>
<![CDATA[ Business ]]>
</section>
</item>
<item>...</item>
<item>...</item>
<item>...</item>
</channel>
As there is multiple item and I want to make it a loop, I tried:
foreach($xml->channel->item as $news) {
$media = $news->media->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/');
echo ($media->content);
}
and also
foreach($xml->channel->item as $news) {
$media = $news->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/');
echo ($media->content);
}
but both are seems failed. What is the right method?

Answer 1

The $media variable is of type SimpleXMLElement.
What you could do is loop your $media variable in a foreach and then get your url from the attributes.
For example (using simplexml_load_string with additional Libxml parameters to load your example xml:
$source = <<<SOURCE
//Your example xml here
SOURCE;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($source, "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_NOERROR|LIBXML_ERR_NONE|LIBXML_ERR_FATAL);
foreach($xml->channel->item as $news) {
$media = $news->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/');
foreach($media as $child) {
echo $child->attributes()->url;
}
}
Will result in:
http://www.thestar.com.my/~/media/online/2017/08/22/03/58/hartalega-glove3.ashx?crop=1=0=0

Answer 2

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml, LIBXML_NOERROR|LIBXML_ERR_NONE|LIBXML_ERR_FATAL);
foreach ($xml->xpath("//media:content") as $node)
{
var_dump ((string) $node["url"]);
}