Elwood

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Hi, I'm working on a project and I've run into a problem and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it or even what is wrong no matter how much I google. I have data in an xml file that I need to read and use to create an array. Here is the XML (food.xml): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Foods> <Food type='fruit' color='yellow'>banana</Food> <Food type='vegetable' color='green'>lettuce</Food> <Food type='meat' color='red'>beef</Food> </Foods> Here is my code to work with the XML (xml_data.php) <?php $file = 'food.xml'; $xml = simplexml_load_file($file); $food = array(); // Example variables $type = 'grain'; $name = 'corn'; // Adds example variables to array $food->key = $type; $food[$type] = $name; // Displays XML data and add to array for($i=0;$i<sizeof($xml);$i++){ // Assigns XML data to variables $type = $xml->Food[$i][type]; $name = $xml->Food[$i]; // Prints variables to see that XML data is actually read echo '(Inside for loop) '.$type.'...'.$name.'<br>'; // Assigns variables to array $food->key = $type; $food[$type] = $name; } echo '<br>Size of array is '.sizeof($food).'<br><br>'; // Prints each entry in the array foreach($food as $key=>$value){ echo '(Inside foreach) Key is '.$key.'<br>'; echo '.....and Value is '.$value.'<br>'; } ?> The example variables when placed into the array work but when I use the same method to place the XML variables into the array it does not. Why does this not work? How can I get it to work? I'm attaching files as well, just in case. Both files are saved in the same directory. Thanks for any help. food.xml xml_data.php