Grab value from XML Feed with PHP

Question

I have the following XML output from my website:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<result>
  <status>0</status>
  <item>
    <message>OK</message>
    <id>123</id>
  </item>
</result>

I'd like to grab the value inside <id> & store in a variable.

Is there a way to do this without using SimpleXML?

Use `DOM` extension with `xpath` – u_mulder Jun 13 '17 at 09:12 — u_mulder, Jun 13 '17 at 09:12
@u_mulder Thank you :-) – michaelmcgurk Jun 13 '17 at 09:14 — michaelmcgurk, Jun 13 '17 at 09:14

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '17 at 09:16

There are a lot of ways to do this: See the official documentation:

XML Manipulation : http://docs.php.net/manual/en/refs.xml.php

The problem is they are all much much more complicated than SimpleXML and nowhere as fast for random access

I would go with simplexml like this:

$xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<result>
  <status>0</status>
  <item>
    <message>OK</message>
    <id>123</id>
  </item>
</result>';

$xmlcont = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);

echo $xmlcont->item->id;

Output : 123

Many thanks, @Bilal - this worked beautifully! – michaelmcgurk Jun 14 '17 at 11:02 — michaelmcgurk, Jun 14 '17 at 11:02

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 09:19

0

Refer This Using DOM

Using simplexml_load_file

answered Jun 13 '17 at 09:19

AnuradhaS

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