Something easier...

[cowboysdude]

Currently what I have is this:

$url="http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/scorestrip/postseason/ss.xml";
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);    // get the url contents
  $data = curl_exec($ch); // execute curl request
  curl_close($ch);
  $xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
  foreach($xml->gms->g as $games)
    {
  	if(!empty($games['vtn']))
    {
     if ((($games['gt']) =='WC') && (($games['q'])== 'F')) {
 	 	echo "<li data-subcategory='Final Scores' data-category='Wild Card Games' data-color='1979ab'><a href='#'>",$games['htn']," ",$games['hs'],"  ",$games['vtn'],"  ",$games['vs'],"  Final</a></li>";
 	 		 }
     if (($games['gt']) =='DIV') {
 		echo "<li data-subcategory='Final Scores' data-category='Divisional Games' data-color='14ab05'><a href='#'>",$games['htn']," ",$games['hs'],"  ",$games['vtn'],"  ",$games['vs'],"  ",$games['d']," at ",$games['t'], "</a></li>";
 	 }
 	 if (($games['gt']) == 'CON') {
 echo "<li data-subcategory='Conference Games' data-category='Sunday' data-color='000000'><a href='#'>",$games['htn']," ",$games['hs'],"  ",$games['vtn'],"  ",$games['vs'],"  ",$games['d']," at ",$games['t'], "</a></li>";
 	  }
    }
  }

It works great, Thanks to some help!

 

The only thing I'd like to do now is have the output be a little more inline ...currently it reads the xml line by line and outputs the each item.. the order is the problem...

It does this:

 

Wild Card game

Wild Card game

Div game

Div game

Conference game

Conference game

Div game

Div game

Wild Card game

Wild Card game

 

I'd like it to output one type at a time....basically grouping all types together..

WC game

Div game

Conference game

 

I continue to learn but this one is stumping me... 

I did get an idea from someone but not sure how to carry this one out...

 

 

Instead of outputting it directly you could just add it to an array in the first loop

So for each game you do
$games[$type][] = $game;

Then you can add another loop (for output) where you will have them sorted

 

Just not sure how to handle that.. I'm feeling a bit lost at the moment...

 

Is this in reference to putting $games[$type] = $game in place of foreach($xml->gms->g as $games)?

 

I guess the second part has me lost as well adding another loop for output... needing to be sorted because each output is styled differently

 

I guess I'm just not understanding....  can anyone clarify for me please?

 

Thanks everyone!

[BuildMyWeb]

http://webcheatsheet.com/php/multidimensional_arrays.php

[cowboysdude]

http://webcheatsheet.com/php/multidimensional_arrays.php

 

 

WOW Thank you BIG TIME... that is very clear and I really like that information!!!  Great new way for me to learn!!!

 

Thank you sooooooooo much!!   Not that anyone wants to know but I'll let you know the results!!!