Load XML file and load content - php

Question

Hi I am trying to load content from an XML file called articles.xml:
It has and as the elements.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RecentArticles>
<Article author="The Reddest">
<Title>Silverlight and the Netflix API</Title>
<Date>1/13/2009</Date>
<Description>Description</Description>
<Link></Link>
</Article>
<Article author="The Hairiest">
<Title>Cake PHP 4 - Saving and Validating Data</Title>
<Date>1/12/2009</Date>
<Description>Description</Description>
<Link></Link>
</Article>
<Article author="The Tallest">
<Title>Silverlight 2 - Using initParams</Title>
<Date>1/6/2009</Date>
<Description>Description</Description>
<Link></Link>
</Article>
<Article author="The Fattest">
<Title>Controlling iTunes with AutoHotkey</Title>
<Date>12/12/2008</Date>
<Description>Description</Description>
<Link></Link>
</Article>
</RecentArticles>
This is the following PHP code I am using to print the elements into the table:
<!--Make table and print each xml element into it-->
<center>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Date</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Link</th>
</tr>
<?php
//Load the xml file int a variable for use in the table below.
$xml = simplexml_load_file("articles.xml");
echo("<tr>");
foreach ($xml->RecentArticles->Article as $entry)
{
$title = $entry['Title']
$date = $entry['Date'];
$description = $entry['Description'];
$link = $entry['Link'];
echo("<td>$title</td>");
echo("<td>$date</td>");
echo("<td>$description</td>");
echo("<td>$link</td>");
}
echo("</tr>");
?>
</table>
</center>
However nothing is printing into the table.. does anyone have any idea why?

Answer 1

You are accessing a (non-existent) attribute value rather than the node value for your content.
Access "Title" attribute value on the "Article" node:
$title = $entry['Title']
Access "Title" node value:
$title = $entry->Title
Example XML:
<RecentArticles>
<Article author="The Reddest" Title="This is what you are accessing with $entry['Title']">
<Title>This is what you should be accessing with $entry->Title</Title>
<Date>1/13/2009</Date>
<Description>Description</Description>
<Link></Link>
</Article>
</RecentArticles>
See this documentation for more information on how to access XML elements.