Parsing XML attributes within a namespace tag (PHP)

Question

I'm using PHP and CURL to get XML, but I'm having problems accessing a specific type of attributes.

Say the XML document is like this:

<item>
    <title>Example Title</title>
    <link>http://www.google.com</link>
    <description>Sample desc here.</description>
    <media:content xmlns:media="http://mediaurl.com/" url="http://www.exampleurl.com/"
    type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="226" width="571">
    </media:content>
</item>

I want to access the url attribute within the tag, but can't seem to get around the namespace problem.

Currently, I've tried using:

$promos = $item->getElementByTagNameNS("media", "content");
foreach ($promos as $promo)
{
    $promoImage = $promo->getAttribute("url");
    break;
}
echo $promoImage;

Does your code actually have a space between for and each? — John Flatness
– John Flatness, Commented Jul 14, 2011 at 19:34
Sorry - not sure how that happened. The actual code does not have issue. Edited above. Thank you for pointing that out. — Sisi
– Sisi, Commented Jul 14, 2011 at 19:42

Gedrox · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-14 21:01:13Z

1

See http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.getelementsbytagnamens.php. You need to register the namespace with the namespaceURI in your XML and specify it.

ADDED

In the beginning I didn't see you've got xmlns:media attribute in your XML. So all you need to change is line

$promos = $item->getElementsByTagNameNS("http://mediaurl.com/", "content");

edited Jul 14, 2011 at 21:01

answered Jul 14, 2011 at 19:34

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3 Comments

Sisi Over a year ago

I've tried the instructions on that page nearly word-for-word and haven't even been able to get the document to echo anything. I'm not sure what's wrong. Also, as I mentioned using CURL before, the xml is not hosted on the server this document is working in. Not sure if that's helpful or not. (thanks for responding, by the way)

Gedrox Over a year ago

Please see the content I've added.

Sisi Over a year ago

Worked beautifully. Thank you so much. I'll go ahead and add your solution to my original post.

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