PHP: get parent node where child = 'value'

Question

I have this xml file:

<friends>
    <friend>
        <name>xxx</name>
        <pays>France</pays>
    </friend>
    <friend>
        <name>yyy</name>
        <country>France</country>
    </friend>
    <friend>
        <name>zzz</name>
        <country>USA</country>
    </friend>
</friends>

To get my data, I am using this php code:

$xml = simplexml_load_file('friends.xml');
$friendsXML = $xml->friend;

Which works fine, but returns all of the friends.

Now I want to retrieve only friends who are from France:

country = 'france'.

Can anyone help me doing that?

Or perhaps better duplicate: [php simplexml get a specific item based on the value of a field](http://stackoverflow.com/q/17537909/367456) — hakre, Jul 10 '15 at 17:35
Or perhaps the even better duplicate: [Implementing condition in XPath](http://stackoverflow.com/q/3448005/367456) — hakre, Jul 10 '15 at 21:14

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 10 '15 at 21:08

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I'd use XPath for things like this. Try:

 $res =  $xml->xpath('friend[country = "france"]');
 echo $res[0];

edited Jul 10 '15 at 21:08

hakre

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answered Jul 10 '15 at 17:27

Andrey B

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PHP: get parent node where child = 'value'

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