Parsing XML from a Web Page with PHP

Question

I heard that you can parse information from a web page with SimpleXML.

How can I get the the Usernames and ID's from the following page and display them on my website like:

Username:Napolien

Id:2202591

The URL to the website from which I want to get the information is:

http://api.roblox.com/users/3/friends

possible duplicate of [How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse-and-process-html-xml-in-php) — Quentin, Jul 25 '13 at 12:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '13 at 12:51

The data is actually JSON. You can get it like this :

 $jsonString = file_get_content('http://api.roblox.com/users/3/friends');
 $data = json_decode($jsonString, true);

 $username = $data[14]['username']; // 14 is your desired index
 $id = $data[14]['id'];

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '13 at 12:51

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Your api returns json, you can decode it with json_decode, i have also include how to traverse through the json objects included in the feed.

$json = file_get_contents("http://api.roblox.com/users/3/friends");
$obj = json_decode($json);

for ($i=0; $i < count($obj); $i++) {
   echo $obj[$i]->Id;
   echo $obj[$i]->Username;
}

answered Jul 25 '13 at 12:51

DevZer0

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Thanks! Do you know how I can add pagination? – Xerx Jul 25 '13 at 13:20
you can accept the answer first if it answered your question :) – DevZer0 Jul 25 '13 at 13:21
Accepted :) Can you tell me how to add pagination? – Xerx Jul 25 '13 at 13:28

Parsing XML from a Web Page with PHP

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