Getting values from XML elements which has the same names using PHP

Question

I have a problem in getting the values from all the 3 IMAGE elements coz they have the same name. Below is my xml feed

<FOUND> <IMAGES> <IMAGE> <SMALL>images/small.jpg</SMALL> <MED>images/med.jpg</MED> <LARGE>images/large.jpg</LARGE> <EXTRAL>images/extra.jpg</EXTRAL> </IMAGE> <IMAGE> <SMALL>images1/small.jpg</SMALL> <MED>images1/med.jpg </MED> <LARGE>images1/large.jpg</LARGE> <EXTRAL>images1/extra.jpg</EXTRAL> </IMAGE> <IMAGE> <SMALL>images2/small.jpg</SMALL> <MED>images2/med.jpg </MED> <LARGE>images2/large.jpg</LARGE> <EXTRAL>images2/extra.jpg</EXTRAL> </IMAGES> </FOUND>

I have written a function in php that will return the first block.

function images($id){ $xml=simplexml_load_file("feed.xml"); foreach ($xml->FOUND->IMAGES as $image) { $imagearr[]=array( 'small'=>$image->IMAGE->SMALL, 'med'=>$image->IMAGE->MEDIUM, 'large'=>$image->IMAGE->LARGE, 'xl'=>$image->IMAGE-> EXTRAL, ); } return $imagearr; }

How do I get to grab all the 3 IMAGE elements? I need to use the returned value in to the below html table

<table width="200" border="1"> <tr> <td>small</td> <td>medium</td> <td>large</td> </tr> <tr> <td>small</td> <td>medium</td> <td>large</td> </tr> <tr> <td>small</td> <td>medium</td> <td>large</td> </tr> </table>

Any help will be much appreciated

Your XML is invalid. Please check your code because posting it. — Josh Davis
– Josh Davis, Commented Feb 4, 2010 at 18:20
sorry, i didnt add the complete xml code coz it was quite huge.. its just a partial code. — LiveEn
– LiveEn, Commented Feb 6, 2010 at 14:09

The Pixel Developer · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-04 17:06:59Z

I would use xPath to return an array.

Try this:

$xml = simplexml_load_file('feed.xml'); $results = $xml->xpath('//IMAGE'); var_dump($results);

Output ...

array(3) { [0]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (4) { ["SMALL"]=> string(16) "images/small.jpg" ["MED"]=> string(14) "images/med.jpg" ["LARGE"]=> string(16) "images/large.jpg" ["EXTRAL"]=> string(16) "images/extra.jpg" } [1]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (4) { ["SMALL"]=> string(17) "images1/small.jpg" ["MED"]=> string(16) "images1/med.jpg " ["LARGE"]=> string(17) "images1/large.jpg" ["EXTRAL"]=> string(17) "images1/extra.jpg" } [2]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#4 (4) { ["SMALL"]=> string(17) "images2/small.jpg" ["MED"]=> string(16) "images2/med.jpg " ["LARGE"]=> string(17) "images2/large.jpg" ["EXTRAL"]=> string(17) "images2/extra.jpg" } }

You'll then be able to iterate over the results with something like

foreach($results as $row) { print $row->SMALL; }

Hope that helps

the problem is that the image path is dynamic , the image path can also be like images985, there is more than 3 elements :(
First of all, you should be more clear because right of now, I don't understand what you want or need. Second, it doesn't matter how many image elements there are. The xpath "//IMAGE" will return an array of ALL "IMAGE" elements

jens walter · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-04 17:14:45Z

to stick a bit more with you original php code, you could try something like this:

$xml=simplexml_load_file("feed.xml"); $imagearr= array(); foreach ($xml->IMAGES->IMAGE as $image) { $imagearr[]=array( 'small'=>$image->SMALL, 'med'=>$image->MEDIUM, 'large'=>$image->LARGE, 'xl'=>$image->EXTRAL); } return $imagearr;

this code just returns only the first block of matches, only the images/ .
actually no - imagearr is an array which contains 3 sub arrays where the values are held

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