I have this xml excerpt:
<Names>
<Name lang="en">Soccer</Name>
<Name lang="it">Calcio</Name>
</Names>
I would like to get an array like this
$names = array(
"en" => "Soccer",
"it" => "Calcio"
)
I tried with simple_load_file() and then traversing the nodes:
for($i=0;$i<count($xmlObject->Names->Name);$i++):
$output[$xmlObject->Names->Name[$i]['lang'] = $xmlObject->Names->Name[$i];
endfor;
but doesnot work.
The quickest way to get an array like the one you want would be to do this:
$dom = simplexml_load_file($yourFile);
$result = array();
foreach ($dom as $node)
{//iterate over elements
if ($node->getName() === 'Name')
{//make sure to only process Name tags
$lang = null;
foreach ($node->attributes() as $name => $val)
{//find the attribtues
if ($name == 'lang')
{//we have the lang attribute
$lang = (string) $val;//cast to string!
break;//we're done here
}
}
if ($lang)
$result[$lang] = (string) $node;//cast node to string to get its contents
}
}
var_dump($result);
The output will be:
array(2) {
["en"]=>
string(6) "Soccer"
["it"]=>
string(6) "Calcio"
}
As OIS suggested in his answer, you could also use SimpleXMLElement::xpath(), which allows you to do away with those ugly nested loops. Apart from the XPath he suggested, I'd probably go for that approach:
foreach ($dom->xpath('//Name[@lang]') as $name)
$result[(string) $name['lang']] = (string) $name;
I simply use xpath since I find that easier. With [@lang] only Name nodes with attribute lang will be selected. Edit: Since that was just an excerpt, I made it //Names so it will also be found if it is not root.
$test = <<< EOF
<Names>
<Name lang="en">Soccer</Name>
<Name lang="it">Calcio</Name>
</Names>
EOF;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($test);
$arr = array();
foreach ($xml->xpath("//Names/Name[@lang]") as $node) {
$arr[(string) $node["lang"]] = (string) $node;
}
var_dump($arr);
Output:
array(2) {
["en"]=>
string(6) "Soccer"
["it"]=>
string(6) "Calcio"
}
$xml->xpath('//Name[@lang]') make more sense here? Anyway +1 for xpath, hope you don't mind my adding it to my answer
//Name[@lang]: aprat from the rather short XML snippet the OP has given us, we don't really know what the actual data looks like. A broad xpath might include too many nodes, but I'd rather have too much data than too little. Ah well, down to the OP to decide
SimpleXMLElementinstances need to be cast to stringsNames, but you don't need to: eval.in/204444 - but doesnot work is also not a good programming question.