note 98443 modified in simplexmlelement.count by danbrown

From: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:41:52 +0000
Subject: note 98443 modified in simplexmlelement.count by danbrown
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I used the DOMNodeList $length property to simulate this function since my host had not yet implemented PHP 5.3. The following code makes it portable and allows you to prepare for an upgrade path. <?php $url = "http://www.example.com/foo.xml"; $xml = simplexml_load_file($url); // For debugging // echo "<p>".phpversion()."</p>"; if(phpversion() >= '5.3.0'){ $bar_count = $xml->foo->bar->count(); } else { $doc = new DOMDocument(); $str = $xml->asXML(); $doc->loadXML($str); $bar_count = $doc->getElementsByTagName("bar")->length; } echo "There are ".$bar_count." /"bar/" nodes in this document.<br />"; ?> --was-- I used the DOMNodeList $length property to simulate this function since my host had not yet implemented PHP 5.3. The following code makes it portable and allows you to prepare for an upgrade path. $url = "http://www.example.com/foo.xml"; $xml = simplexml_load_file($url); // For debugging // echo "<p>".phpversion()."</p>"; if(phpversion() >= '5.3.0'){ $bar_count = $xml->foo->bar->count(); } else { $doc = new DOMDocument(); $str = $xml->asXML(); $doc->loadXML($str); $bar_count = $doc->getElementsByTagName("bar")->length; } echo "There are ".$bar_count." /"bar/" nodes in this document.<br />"; http://php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.count.php

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