How would I get this xml data into an array?

[devWhiz]

I use simplexml to parse the xml that is like this

 

<xml>
    <data>
        <id>15</id>
        <age>18</age>
        <name>name</name>
    </data>
    <data>
        <id>23</id>
        <age>19</age>
        <name>name2</name>
    </data>
<xml>

 

I want to be able to grab the age and name like this

 

$array[$id]['age'];

$array[$id]['name'];

 

where $id equals the id in each data element.. I want to get the age and name randomly use $id = rand(1,30); but I dont know how to set up the array, any help is appreciated

 

[Maq]

Do you absolutely require an array?  Why don't you load it into something like an simplexml object and use XPath.

[devWhiz]

I could do that but the script I wrote worked around values in an array

 

Array 
(
[25] => Array
	(
		[Name] => Clueless
		[Age] => 18
	)
[15] => Array
	(
		[Name] => Name2
		[Age] => 20
	)
)

 

and then I could call it like this

 

 

$id = 20;

echo $array[$id]['name']; // this would be name2