Parse XML data with PHP - php

Question

I have a XML feed with the following URL with IDs of trips to be retrieved.
http://www.expeditiontrips.com/xml/triplist.xml
Based on the each trip information can be retrieved from following URL where the ID becomes the XML name
http://www.expeditiontrips.com/xml/trips/2945.xml
I need to show this feed on my website using PHP. I retrieved trip IDs using the following code but then I have no clue how to use that information to get the individual trip details and show them in my site.
<?php
$ch = curl_init('http://www.expeditiontrips.com/xml/triplist.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml_raw = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$trips = simplexml_load_string($xml_raw);
foreach ($trips as $trip):
echo '<li><div class="title">'.$trip.'</div></li>';
endforeach;
?>

Answer 1

I still wasn't sure how you would like your layout, but this will get you started. I just showed you how to get a single value and how to get a values from an array.
<?php
$ch = curl_init('http://www.expeditiontrips.com/xml/triplist.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml_raw = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$trips = simplexml_load_string($xml_raw);
//uncomment next 2 lines, to view the array $trips
// echo "<pre>";
// print_r($trips);
//pick one id, for example the first one.
$ch = curl_init('http://www.expeditiontrips.com/xml/trips/' . $trips->trip[0] . '.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml_raw = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$info = simplexml_load_string($xml_raw);
//uncomment next 2 lines, to view the array $info
// echo "<pre>";
// print_r($info);
//single value
echo '' . $info->url . '<br />';
//multiple valeus in an array
foreach($info->images->image as $images){
echo '<img src="' . $images->url . '">';
}
?>

Answer 2

Finally Ended up with the following code. :) Hope it helps someone
<?php
$ch = curl_init('http://www.expeditiontrips.com/xml/triplist.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml_raw = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$trips = simplexml_load_string($xml_raw);
$totalTrips = count($trips);
$perPage = 10;
$page = isset($_GET['trip']) && ($page = intval($_GET['trip'])) > 0 ? $page : 1;
$start = ($page - 1) * $perPage;
$end = $start + $perPage;
for ($a=$start; $a<$end; ++$a) {
if (isset($trips->trip[$a])) {
$ch = curl_init('http://www.expeditiontrips.com/xml/trips/' . $trips->trip[$a] . '.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml_raw = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$info = simplexml_load_string($xml_raw);
$ran = array(1,2,3,4,5,6);
$randomElement = $ran[array_rand($ran, 1)];
echo '<div id="trip-item">';
echo '<div class="trip-title">'.$info->name.'</div>';
echo '<div class="trip-body">';
echo '<div class="col span_3">';
echo '<img src="'.$info->images->image[$randomElement]->url.'" />';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="col span_9 col_last">';
echo '<span class="mini-des">'.$info->description.'</span>';
echo '<table>';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>Prices: '.$info->prices->price->value.'</td>';
echo '<td>Days:</td>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>Ship: '.$info->additions->addition[0]->body.'</td>';
echo '<td>Click here for Departure Dates</td>';
echo '</tr></table></div></div></div>';
}
}
$pages = ceil($totalTrips / $perPage);
$low = $page - 3;
$high = $page + 3;
echo '<div class="paginator">';
if ($page > 3) {
echo '«';
}
for ($a=$low; $a<=$high; ++$a) {
if($a > $pages) {
break;
}
if($a > 0 && $a != $page) {
echo '' . $a . '';
} else if($a > 0) {
echo '<span>' . $a . '</span>';
}
}
if ($page != $pages) {
echo '»';
}
echo '</div>';
?>