MidOhioIT Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Is there a way in php to read the following xml file and only parse out the string between the tags <image></image> as example and store in 3 variables. examples: $image1 = <image>http://www.buck.com/slideshow_images/sidesponsor1.jpg</image> (just inside the tags) $image2 = <image>http://www.buck.com/slideshow_images/sidesponsor2.jpg</image> (just inside the tags) $image3 = <image>http://www.buck.com/slideshow_images/sidesponsor3.jpg</image> (just inside the tags) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> <images> <pic> <image>http://www.buck.com/slideshow_images/sidesponsor1.jpg</image> <caption></caption> <link>http://www.wades.com</link> </pic> <pic> <image>http://www.buck.com/slideshow_images/sidesponsor2.jpg</image> <caption></caption> <link>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bucom/164093073538?ref=ts</link> </pic> <pic> <image>http://www.buck.com/slideshow_images/sidesponsor3.jpg</image> <caption></caption> <link>http://www.carnohio.com/</link> </pic> </images> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/199866-reading-an-xml-file-and-parsing-into-variables/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybride Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 You could use a regular expression (preg_match_all/replace, depending on what you want) to remove the <image></image> part in $image[$i]. For the actual XML, you could use SimpleXML. Example 2 looks like what you're trying to do. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/199866-reading-an-xml-file-and-parsing-into-variables/#findComment-1049077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidOhioIT Posted April 27, 2010 Author Share Posted April 27, 2010 i dont want to remove the tags as much as I want to assign the string inside the first image tags to variable1 and inside the 2nd image tags to variable2 ect... does that make sense? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/199866-reading-an-xml-file-and-parsing-into-variables/#findComment-1049083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldb358 Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 as stated above use simpleXML a quick example: $xmlfile = 'file.xml'; $xml = simplexml_load_file($xml); $images = array(); foreach($xml->pic as $link){ $images[] = $link->image; } Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/199866-reading-an-xml-file-and-parsing-into-variables/#findComment-1049104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidOhioIT Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 thank you for the help. There was a few minor typos but you put me on the right track. I am only posting this code and making that statement because I am marking this as resolved and the next person to read this can have the actual code that worked with no syntax or flaws. Thanks again $xmlfile = 'image_and_link.xml'; $xml = simplexml_load_file($xmlfile); $images = array(); foreach($xml->pic as $link) { $images[] = $link->image; $links[] = $link->link; } Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/199866-reading-an-xml-file-and-parsing-into-variables/#findComment-1049684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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