Parsing XML (PHP)

Question

I'm using SimpleXML . I want to get this node's text attribute.

<yweather:condition  text="Mostly Cloudy"  ......

I'm using this it's not working :

$xml->children("yweather", TRUE)->condition->attributes()->text;

Exact duplicate when using DOM: stackoverflow.com/questions/3268976/… — Gordon
– Gordon, Commented Mar 1, 2011 at 14:45
your "is not working" code is not working because you are doing it wrong: <yweather:condition> is a child of rss/channel/item while you are trying rss/condition — Gordon
– Gordon, Commented Mar 1, 2011 at 15:20

Josh Pennington · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-01 14:37:04Z

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Do a print_r() on $xml to see how the structure looks. From there you should be able to see how to access the information.

answered Mar 1, 2011 at 14:37

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SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) . Also question edited please look again

Wige · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-01 14:47:30Z

It looks like you are trying to access an attribute, which is stored in an array in $xml->yweather->attributes() so:

$attributes = $xml->condition->attributes();
$weather = $attributes['text'];

To deal with the namespace, you need to use children() to get the members of that namespace.

$weather_items = $xml->channel->item->children("http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0");

It might help to mention that the string you showed is part of a feed, specifically the RSS formatted Yahoo Weather feed.

MrPHP · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-01 14:35:38Z

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You would probably use $xml->condition but there may be branches before that.

answered Mar 1, 2011 at 14:35

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