parsing a xml to get some values - php

Question

http://www.managerleague.com/export_data.pl?data=transfers&output=xml&hide_header=0
These are player sales from a browser game. I want to save some fields from these sales. I am fetching that xml with curl and storing on my server. Then do the following:
$xml_str = file_get_contents('salespage.xml');
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_str);
$items = $xml->xpath('*/transfer');
print_r($items);
foreach($items as $item) {
echo $item['buyerTeamname'], ': ', $item['sellerTeamname'], "\n";
}
The array is empty and i cant seem to get anything from it. What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

There is no reason to use cURL or XPath for that. You can do
$url = 'http://www.managerleague.com/export_data.pl?data=transfers&output=xml&hide_header=0';
$transfers = new SimpleXMLElement($url, NULL, TRUE);
foreach($transfers->transfer as $transfer) {
printf(
"%s transfered from %s to %s\n",
$transfer->playerName,
$transfer->sellerTeamname,
$transfer->buyerTeamname
);
}
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Answer 2

You forgot a slash in your xpath:
$xml_str = file_get_contents('salespage.xml');
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_str);
$items = $xml->xpath('/*/transfer');
print_r($items);
foreach($items as $item) {
echo $item->buyerTeamname, ': ', $item->sellerTeamname, "\n";
}

Answer 3

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file("test.xml");
echo $xml->getName() . "<br />";
foreach($xml->children() as $child)
{
echo $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br />";
}
?>
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