Echo XML contents in PHP

Question

I have an image generated with PHP that contains dynamically generated text. The data it was originally sourcing from has changed to a different format, from JSON to XML. I'm unfamiliar with XML and related PHP commands.

What I wish to do is to echo a specific part of the XML page/file. For example, if the data is structured in this manner:

<sometag>
    <anothertag>
        <tag1>ABC123</tag1>
        <tag2>DEF456</tag2>
        <tag3>GHI789</tag3>
    </anothertag>
</sometag>

If I want to echo the contents of, say, tag2, what would I need to do? Is there some sort of $xml->tag2 feature, similar to how it works with JSON?

http://php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php for simpleXML — user3490773, Nov 21 '17 at 01:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 21 '17 at 04:14

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You could use SimpleXML library.

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string);
echo $xml->anothertag->tag2;
//DEF456

edited Nov 21 '17 at 04:14

Phil

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answered Nov 21 '17 at 02:08

catzilla

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Brilliant. Thanks. – Hiigaran Nov 21 '17 at 11:41

Echo XML contents in PHP

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