Problems with a foreach loop in a SimpleXMLelement - php

Question

I'm trying to teach myself to handle the SimpleXMP_read_file command / object.
So I have looked deeply into the problem at "simpleXMLElement attributes and foreach" (
simpleXMLElement attributes and foreach ).
copied it bit by bit into my PHP browser and ran it.
test.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<response result="0">
<reports>
<get count="2">
<row a="first" b="second" comment="test" c=""/>
<row a="first1" b="second2" comment="test2" c=""/>
</get>
</reports>
</response>
modified the php like this:
PHP:
$xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml');
$rows = $xml->xpath('reports/get/row');
foreach($rows as $row)
{
foreach($row->attributes() as $key)
{
echo ('test: '.$key['a'] .' '.$key['b'].' '.$key['comment'].' '.$key['c'].'<br>') ;
}
}
I get no errors but only 2 lines :
test
test
No data.
Can anyone tell me why ?

Answer 1

You are doing a foreach over $row->attributes(). Therefore each iteration of the loop is a different attribute. None of the attributes have a $key['a'] value set.
You probably want to do:
foreach($rows as $row){
$key = $row->attributes();
echo 'test: '.$key['a'] .' '.$key['b'].' '.$key['comment'].' '.$key['c'].'<br>';
}

Answer 2

after doing a print_r($rows); i have got the following. Now you can access the array elements and class objects directly by $row->attributes['a'] etc.
foreach($rows as $row){
$xmlObjElement = json_decode(json_encode((array)$row), TRUE);
foreach($xmlObjElement as $fo){
print_r( $fo );
}
}
Output:
Array
(
[a] => first1
[b] => second2
[comment] => test2
[c] =>
)
Now you can access like $fo['a'] etc...