Reading data from xml with php - php

Question

please can anybody help me on how to retrieve data from the xml document below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<livescore-feed timestamp-created="1279745722">
<item id="afab6479053955afcd07dbe2eb972feb" status= "finished" timestamp-starts= "1278255600">
<teams>
<hosts id="zenspbfc_rus">
<name>Zenit</name>
<fullname>FC Zenit St. Petersburg</fullname>
</hosts>
<guests id="anzmfc_rus">
<name>Anzhi</name>
<fullname>FC Anzhi Makhachkala </fullname>
</guests>
</teams>
<events>
<event type="goal" team="hosts">
<player>Bystrov</player>
<minute>15</minute>
<score>1 - 0</score>
</event>
<event type="yellow_card" team="guests">
<player>Tsorayev</player>
<minute>40</minute>
</event>
</events>
</item>
</livescore-feed>
i have tried the following and i was able to some data, except from the events node, the events contains some nodes event. the problem i have is how to get the event from the events node
$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
$match_id = $xml->{livescorefullname-feed}->matches->item[$i]['id'];
echo $match_id;

Answer 1

In SimpleXML, you don't specify the root node, because the SimpleXML object ($xml) is the root node.
This loops through each event and outputs the details.
foreach($xml->item->events->event as $event){
echo $event->score;
echo $event->player;
echo $event->attributes()->type;
echo $event->attributes()->team;
}