Xml PHP Get attributes and its children value - php

Question

XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<lessons>
<lesson level="1" course="2">
<name type="Dog" category="Animals">Dog name</name>
</lesson>
</lessons>
I want to get the values saved like this:
$type = "Dog";
$category = "Animals";
$name = "dog name";
This is what I've done:
foreach($xml->name as $name){
$type = $name['type'];
$category = $name['category'];
echo "Type: $type Category: $category<br>";
// AND TO get the text, haven't figuered it out yet.. <name ..="" ..="">text</name>
}
But it doesn't work. Don't get any errors neither any output. Any ideas?
EDIT:
OK. I changed foreach($xml->name as $name)
to foreach($xml->lesson->name as $name)
so I get the values of the attribute. But now I don't know how to get the value of the children.
I've tried this: $xml->lesson->children()
It prints children()
SOLVED: $text = $xml->lesson->children();
echo $text;
PROBLEM WAS: I'm using utf-8 in my other code but didn't change it.

Answer 1

Edit : this part related to a question typo. If you copied your xml directly from where you were editting it, then part of the problem might be that it is malformed. You have an opening <lessons> but you appear to wrongly try to close it with </lesson>.
Also, depending on your root node settings, ->name may or may not be a child of the $xml object. Can you post a var_dump() of it and get some clues?

Answer 2

I think, there is some problem in your xml.
-> You have to close lessons tag correctly.Because you have entered </lesson> (see last line) instead of </lessons>. If you start any tag, you should use the same tag name while closing..
you can use this code to extract values from your xml,
<?php
$xmlstring='<lessons>
<lesson level="1" course="2">
<name type="Dog" category="Animals">Dog name</name>
</lesson>
</lessons>';
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstring);
$ATTRIBUTE=array();
$counter = 0;
foreach($xml->children() as $key=>$child)
{
$counter++;
$ATTRIBUTE[$counter]["type"]=$child->name->attributes()->type;
$ATTRIBUTE[$counter]["category"]=$child->name->attributes()->category;
$ATTRIBUTE[$counter]["value"]= $child->name;
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r($ATTRIBUTE);
?>
here you will get everything in array. So you can fetch based on your requirement.