Parsing XLM with PHP - php

Question

I have an XML product feed that I am parsing with PHP to load products into a database.
I need to get each element into an array of $products = array() such as:
$products[AttributeID] = value
This is what I have so far:
I am using simplexml and I have got most of it:
$xml = simplexml_load_file($CatalogFileName) or die("can't open file " . $CatalogFileName);
foreach($xml->children() as $products) {
foreach($products->children() as $product) {
$new_product = array();
$new_product[sku] = "AS-" . $product->Name;
foreach($product->Values->Value as $node) {
$node_name = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $node[AttributeID]);
$new_product[$node_name] = $node[0]; **<--THIS IS NOT WORKING: $node[0] returns an array I only want the data in each attribute.**
}
foreach($product->AssetCrossReference as $node) {
$new_product[image] = "http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/images/items/fullsize/" . $node[AssetID] . ".jpg";
}
print_r($new_product);
}
}
Here is an image of one product node: XML
Can someone provide me with a little help here? I do a lot of PHP programming but this is the first time I am dealing with XML

Answer 1

A possbile solution is to use the xpath method to find the <Value> elements.
The xpath method will return an array of SimpleXMLElement objects.
These SimpleXMLElement objects have an attributes method which you can use to access the 'AttributeID' attribute.
I hope this example can help you:
$xml = simplexml_load_file($CatalogFileName) or die("can't open file " . $CatalogFileName);
$productsArray = array();
foreach($xml->children() as $products) {
foreach($products->children() as $product) {
$new_product = array();
$productId = (string)$product->attributes()->ID;
$new_product['NAME'] = "AS-" . (string)$product->Name;
// xpath will return an array of SimpleXMLElement objects
$values = $product->Values->xpath('//Value');
// use the attributes method to access the AttributeID
foreach ($values as $node) {
$attributeID = (string)$node->attributes()->AttributeID;
$new_product[$attributeID] = trim((string)$node);
}
$new_product['AssetID'] = sprintf(
"http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/images/items/fullsize/%s.jpg",
(string)$product->AssetCrossReference->attributes()->AssetID
);
// Add $new_product to $productsArray using the $productId as the array key
$productsArray[$productId] = $new_product;
}
}