in my xml file there is field like this:
<state-code>GA</state-code>
now i am fetching data from it in php.
simplexml_load_file is returning the whole content as object.
no problem still now ,but when i am writing like this
$single_property->location->state-code
it is not fetching value.
but if it is or then no problem.but i don't have control over the xml file structure.have to find out another way.
what to do?please suggest.
Assuming all other code not shown is correct, you access a property with illegal chars (the -) like:
$single_property->location->{'state-code'}
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i want grab xml file with simplexml_load_file. when i read simple xml it give value, but when i try read this xml that have many data, the output just like #atribute and not give value. please give me solution why ?. sory for my bad english. i have 2 picture, and code to read it.
simplexml_load_file('C://xampp/htdocs/instantSupportXml.xml');
print_r($file);
I have two lines of XML data that are attributes but also contain data inside then and they are repeating fields. They are being stored in a SimpleXML variable.
<inputField Type="Name">John Doe</inputField>
<inputField Type="DateOfHire">Tomorrow</inputField>
(Clearly this isnt real data but the syntax is actually in my data and I'm just using string data in them)
Everything that I've seen says to access the data like this, ,which I have tried and it worked perfectly. But my data is dynamic so the data isn't always going to be in the same place, so it doesn't fit my needs.
$xmlFile->inputField[0];
$xmlFile->inputField[1];
This works fine until one of the lines is missing, and I can have anywhere from 0 to 5 lines. So what I was wondering was is there any way that I can access the data by attribute name? So potentially like this.
$xmlFile->inputField['Name'];
or
$xmlFile->inputField->Name;
I use these as examples strictly to illustrate what I'm trying to do, I am aware that neither of the above lines of code are syntactically correct.
Just a note this information is being generated externally so I cannot change the format.
If anyone needs clarification feel free to let me know and would be happy to elaborate.
Maybe like this?
echo $xmlFile->inputField->attributest()->Name;
And what you're using? DOMDocument or simplexml?
You don't say, but I assume you're using SimpleXMLElement?
If you want to access every item, just iterate:
foreach ($xmlFile->inputField as $inputField) { ... }
If you want to access an attribute use array notation:
$inputField['Type']
If you want to access only one specific element, use xpath:
$xmlFile->xpath('inputField[#Type="Name"]');
Perhaps you should read through the basic examples of usage in the SimpleXMLElement documentation?
For example you can a grab a data:
$xmlFile = simplexml_load_file($file);
foreach($xmlFile->inputField as $res) {
echo $res["Name"];
}
Hello im struggling with a problem. I have an url that contains xml data...
when i'm using file_get_contents($url) or fopen($url,'r') it gives me only values:
Consider the xml:
<tag1 attrName="something">
<tag2>some Value</tag2>
<tag2>some Other Value</tag2>
...
...
</tag1>
what i get: some Value, some Other Value
But i need to get whole xml (with tags and attributes and its' values) and parse it with my own way because there's a restriction that i'm not allowed to use php 5.x practices.I mean i cant use any parser.. It shouldnt be so hard to get xml data as is.. should it??
what i get: some Value, some Other Value
Nope - my suspicion is that that is what you see in your browser, because it is swallowing all <tags>.
The XML source code will be there after a file_get_contents() operation.
You are using file_get_contents() which states
This function is similar to file(), except that file_get_contents()
returns the file in a string, starting at the specified offset up to
maxlen bytes. On failure, file_get_contents() will return FALSE.
Press Ctrl+u to see the source code in any of the major browsers(except IE where its F12 in IE9). I am sure that your code will be there. Your browser wont display the tags that's all.
The other longer(but better way) to display an XML file from your php file is to pass the content type as text/xml. Use the following way
<?php
header("Content-Type: text/xml");//SHOULD come before any output
// dynamically generate and output your xml here
?>
I have and input XML file that is not correctly formatted ( ie. it has '&' instead of '& amp;')
When i try to load this XML using PHP DOM, $doc->load("file.xml") it throws and error and stops the parsing.
Is there any way to load this un-formatted XML? and No I cant edit the source XML file.
I did try using $doc->loadHTML() but it throws errors all over the place.
I wanted to know if there is a proper way to do this (like load file contents and change it using regex or something similar)
Try setting $doc->validateOnParse = false; before loading your XML via $doc->loadHTML(...).
First, check that it's the & that's causing the error and not something else.
One way or another, you'll have to modify the XML to get it parsed. The HTML in loadHTML is loaded from a string, can't you just replace the invalid characters with the correct ones?
If your installation supports the PHP Tidy extension (http://php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php) you could try to clean it up with that, though in my experience it's far from foolproof.
If you are sure that's the only thing making it not validate, then you could try loading the file into a string with file_get_contents() function, then search & replace through the string to change the &'s into &'s, then place that string into simpleXML like $xml = simplexml_load_string($cleaned_string);
I need to dump an xml string (coming into a web service as a POST param), directly into a Mysql DB. The column into which I am writing is currently of type 'text', though I have tried blob as well.
Right now, when I save the string and retrieve it later on using sql, it comes back in a serialized like format, like this:
a:1:{s:14:"<?xml_encoding";s:1502:"UTF-8?><record>
<nodes></nodes>
</record>";}
Whereas, I need to parse that xml as a simplexml object, and hence need it to be better formed.
This is what I am doing codewise:
Accept Post Param in web service
Serialize and store it in DB using doctrine ORM, kind of like
$record->xml_rec = serialize($_POST)
Retrieve it and echo it.
Oddly enough, if I unserialize and echo is upon retrial, I get an array. The array looks like this upon print_f
Array
(
[<?xml_encoding] => UTF-8?><record>
<nodes></nodes>
</record>
)
Still not parse-able by simplexml.
Is this a mysql storage problem or am I doing something wrong with the POST params? I've tried htmlspecialchars to save the string in the db, but similar problems remain.
any help is appreciated, thanks
What you have is a "serialized" php array that you can unserialize by using ... PHP's unserialize function.