Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf on 10/31/63 11:12

The XML functions really aren't that hard to use. If you just want a
simple parse to pick out something have a look at:

for PHP4: http://php.net/xml_parse_into_struct
for PHP5: http://php.net/simplexml_load_file

-Rasmus

emre@vt.com.tr wrote:
> you can handle xml output as if a string file, then easily parse xml
> file with preg_match / preg_match_all,
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> smt like this can do the job:
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> <?php
> $str="<xml version bla
> bla><price>somevaluehere</price><price>somevaluehere2</price><price>somevaluehere2</price>etc";
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> preg_match_all("/<price>([^<])*<\/price>/i", $str, $matches);
> echo count($matches[0]);
> for ($i=0; $i< count($matches[0]); $i++) {
> echo '<br> + '.$matches[0][$i];
> }
> ?>
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> but you'd better learn to handle xml files via xml parsers.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Dunning" <brian@briandunning.com>
> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:53 PM
> Subject: [PHP] Easy way to grab a value out of XML?
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>> I've been looking at the XML commands and am feeling a bit
>> overwhelmed. My needs are simple and I'm hoping there's an easy
>> solution that I'm just missing. I have a hunk of well-formed XML in a
>> variable, $xml, and it contains only one instance of
>> <price>x.xx</price>. I just want to get the $price out of $xml. What's
>> the simplest way?
>>
>> - Brian
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