Re: Easy way to grab a value out of XML?

The XML functions really aren't that hard to use. If you just want a simple parse to pick out something have a look at: for PHP4: http://php.net/xml_parse_into_struct for PHP5: http://php.net/simplexml_load_file -Rasmus emre@vt.com.tr wrote:

you can handle xml output as if a string file, then easily parse xml file with preg_match / preg_match_all, smt like this can do the job: <?php $str="<xml version bla bla><price>somevaluehere</price><price>somevaluehere2</price><price>somevaluehere2</price>etc"; preg_match_all("/<price>([^<])*<\/price>/i", $str, $matches); echo count($matches[0]); for ($i=0; $i< count($matches[0]); $i++) { echo '<br> + '.$matches[0][$i]; } ?> but you'd better learn to handle xml files via xml parsers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Dunning" <brian@briandunning.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:53 PM Subject: [PHP] Easy way to grab a value out of XML?

I've been looking at the XML commands and am feeling a bit overwhelmed. My needs are simple and I'm hoping there's an easy solution that I'm just missing. I have a hunk of well-formed XML in a variable, $xml, and it contains only one instance of <price>x.xx</price>. I just want to get the $price out of $xml. What's the simplest way? - Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php