PHP. XML parsing from variable

Question

I've such piece of code:

$xml=”<response>      
      <version>1.2</version>
      <merchant_id></merchant_id>
      <order_id> ORDER_123456</order_id>
      <amount>1.01</amount>
      <currency>UAH</currency>
      <description>Comment</description>
      <status>success</status>
      <code></code>
      <transaction_id>31</transaction_id>
      <pay_way>card</pay_way>
      <sender_phone>+3801234567890</sender_phone>
      <goods_id>1234</goods_id>
      <pays_count>5</pays_count>
</response>";

Could I parse it? How to do it? I had never work with XML. E.g how to take ?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 19 '13 at 05:53

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You should use simplexml_load_string function.

Parse as follow:

echo simplexml_load_string($xml)->version;

There is plenty functions you could use have a look at the link above.

edited Sep 19 '13 at 05:53

hakre

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answered Sep 18 '13 at 14:29

JTC

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 18 '13 at 14:34

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Try saving your XML to a file and use simplexml to parse it in php.

See tutorial here: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-to-parse-xml-with-php5

answered Sep 18 '13 at 14:34

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XaxD · Answer 3 · 2013-09-18T16:52:09.697

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You should use DomDocument. It is much more flexible and useful than SimpleXML.

Parse as follows:

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($xml);
$price = $doc->getElementsByTagName('amount');
$currency = $doc->getElementsByTagName('currency');

edited Sep 18 '13 at 16:52

answered Sep 18 '13 at 14:47

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PHP. XML parsing from variable

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