xml with php???

**demiurgen** · 07-21-2006 05:56 AM

with the "simplexml_load_file" function i load an xml file into a variable called $staff. and when i use the print_r function on the $staff variable i get this result:

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[FirstName] => Array
(
[0] => James

[1] => John
[2] => Wayne
[3] => Jack
[4] => Eric
[5] => Roger

)

)
when i look at the xml data it is styled as this:
<names>
</FirstName>
<FirstName>James</FirstName>
<FirstName>John</FirstName>
<FirstName>Wayne</FirstName>
<FirstName>Jack</FirstName>
<FirstName>Eric</FirstName>
<FirstName>Roger</FirstName>
</names>

can anyone tell me how i can output this using a foreach loop??

**LiLcRaZyFuZzY** · 07-21-2006 06:07 AM

example, output it as a list:

PHP Code:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>

    <head>

        <title></title>

        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

        <style type="text/css">

        

        </style>

    </head>

    <body>

<?php

    # array xml2array(str filename)

    function xml2array($xml_file){

        # loading file

        $xml = simplexml_load_file($xml_file);

        if(!$xml){

            # could not load file

            return false;

        }

        

        

        # reading values from xml

        

        foreach($xml->FirstName as $FirstName){

            $xml_array[] = $FirstName;

        }

        

        # returning array

        return $xml_array;

    }

    

    $names = xml2array("simple-xml.xml");

    

    echo "<ul>";

    foreach($names as $person){

        echo "<li>$person</li>";

    }

    echo "</ul>";

?>

    </body>

</html>

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