PHP parse XML data

Question

I have something like this:

  <client type="s" name="root" desc="" protocol="server" protocolext="" au="0" thid="0x15e9190">
     <request="0000" srvid="0000" time="" history="" answered=""></request>
     <times login="2013-04-16T10:59:16+0200" online="7001" idle="0"></times>
     <connection ip="127.0.0.1" port="0">OK</connection>
  </client>

Now, i need to parse this data into a PHP variables, something like this:

 $client_type = s; $name = root; $conn_ip = 127.0.0.1;

...and so on,is there a way to do that?

Tried bash, but it would be much easier if it can be done with php

gen_Eric · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-21T22:49:33.583

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PHP has XML support. I like to use SimpleXML.

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlString);

$client_type = (string)$xml['type'];
$name = (string)$xml['name'];

$conn_ip = (string)$xml->connection['ip'];

Easy.

DEMO: https://eval.in/124545

edited Mar 21 '14 at 22:49

answered Mar 21 '14 at 22:43

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Thanks for this, will test it tomorrow, a newb question: Why is there (string) in front of an $xml? And how would i extract "OK" this way? – skymario84 Mar 21 '14 at 22:52
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1. Things like `$xml['name']` are `SimpleXMLElement` *objects*, [casting to a string](http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php) in this way gets their text value (`"root"`). 2. `(string) $xml->connection`. See also, http://php.net/simplexml.examples-basic – salathe Mar 21 '14 at 23:09
This works great, but when i download xml file i have multiple structures as the above one, how can i do it with multiple structures? – skymario84 Mar 22 '14 at 07:44
You'd have to make sure all the `` tags are under a root element. Then `$root->client` would be an array of elements. Loop over `$root->client` and get the info for each item. – gen_Eric Mar 22 '14 at 19:16

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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You can try it with a xml Parser: http://de1.php.net/xml, Best XML Parser for PHP

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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answered Mar 21 '14 at 22:38

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thanks for that, i know how to use xmlparser on a normal xml syntax Mario but i don't know how to do that with a value inside a tag, can you give me an example? Thanks in advance – skymario84 Mar 21 '14 at 22:43

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 22:39

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simplexml_load_file() or simplexml_load_string() loads xml as an object.

answered Mar 21 '14 at 22:39

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 22:59

If you need to fetch data from a XML use Xpath:

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadXml($xml);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);

$client_type = $xpath->evaluate('string(/client/@type)'); 
$name = $xpath->evaluate('string(/client/@name)');; 
$conn_ip = $xpath->evaluate('string(/client/connection/@ip)');

Demo: https://eval.in/124553

PHP parse XML data

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