Get data from an xml file - php

Question

In a php script how to read and convert a XML document to an object and access the obtained object in order to get his data?
<?php
$xml ='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<data request-id="ID">
<data name="Name1"
d1="0"
d2="0231234"
d3="32584">
<data name="Name2"
d4="231234"
d5="2012-06-06 18:18:10.000607"
d6="3b048653-aaa9-485b-b0dd-d16e068230e9" />
</data>
</data>';
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
//how to get the data d1? or d4? from the obtained object
?>

Answer 1

You can use this snippet:
<?php
$xmlstring = file_get_contents($filename);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstring);
$json = json_encode($xml);
$object = json_decode($json);

Answer 2

Try using this function -
$xml ='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<data request-id="ID">
<data name="Name1"
d1="0"
d2="0231234"
d3="32584">
<data name="Name2"
d4="231234"
d5="2012-06-06 18:18:10.000607"
d6="3b048653-aaa9-485b-b0dd-d16e068230e9" />
</data>
</data>';
function xmlToArray($input, $callback = null, $recurse = false) {
$data = ((!$recurse) && is_string($input))? simplexml_load_string($input, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA): $input;
if ($data instanceof SimpleXMLElement) $data = (array) $data;
if (is_array($data)) foreach ($data as &$item) $item = xmlToArray($item, $callback, true);
return (!is_array($data) && is_callable($callback))? call_user_func($callback, $data): $data;
}
$xml = xmlToArray($xml);
echo $xml['data']['#attributes']['d1'];
echo '<br/>';
echo $xml['data']['data']['#attributes']['d4'];

Answer 3

Use
$myxml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
echo $myxml->data[1]['d1'];
echo $myxml->data[1]['d2'];
echo $myxml->data[1]['d3'];
echo $myxml->data[2]['d4'];
Reference : How to parse XML with PHP5

Answer 4

try :-
echo $xml['data']['#attributes']['d1'];
echo '<br/>';
echo $xml['data']['data']['#attributes']['d4'];