soundcloud http request search engine - php

Question

I want to retrieve XML data from soundcloud using a simple search engine, that retrieves results in a simple results table array
$tracks = "https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks?q=".$var."&client_id=bbba84be29098bdaad6a5de1c048e3e9&limit=10";
$mysongs = simplexml_load_file($tracks);
echo "<table>";
echo '<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">';
echo '<tbody>';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<th>State</th> <th>Name</th><th>Song</th><th>artist</th><th>user</th> <th>user</th>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '</tbody>';
foreach ($mysongs->track->user as $track) {
echo '<tbody>';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>';
echo $user->kind;
echo '</td>';
echo " ";
echo '<td>';
echo $user->kind;
echo " ";
echo '</td>';
echo '<td>';
echo $user->kind;
echo " ";
echo '</td>';
echo '<td>';
echo $user->kind;
echo " ";
echo '</td>';
echo '<td>';
echo $user->kind;
echo '</td>';
echo '<td>';
echo $user->kind;
echo '</td>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '</tbody>';
}
this is my code but nothing seems to display as a result, i have tested the same format of code on another api (yelp) and it does work in xml, so what am i missing here? i dont want to use json, i need it to be xml ( the user -> kind ) is just for testing the code right now.

Answer 1

the variable $user doesn't exist. the variable you want is $track. so where you have
echo $user->kind
replace that with
echo $track->kind
you can see the format of the returned object (and it's hierarchy by running the code in the cli and
print_r($mysongs)