Parse XML to a php page help please

[Kibit]

I have to be honest, I have absolutely no idea how to go about this but I think for someone who's done this sort of thing before I'd be a 2 sec doddle of a job.

 

I want to pull some info (but not all) out of an XML file

 

Here is the file..

http://www.wsad.co.uk/tm/ajax.php?plugin=Website&autologin=true&server_id=1

 

And all I wanna pull out is

<name>

<type>

<currentchallenge>

<players>

 

If someone could code that in php with a plain text output I would be extremely grateful.

[trq]

Take a look at the simplexml extension. It really is, as the name implies, simple.

[Kibit]

Take a look at the simplexml extension. It really is, as the name implies, simple.

 

Thanks but it seems not simple enough for a n00b like me..

 

Here is what I've done..

 

<?php

$xml = http://www.wsad.co.uk/tm/ajax.php?plugin=Website&autologin=true&server_id=1;

echo $xml->name[0]->plot; // "So this language. It's like..."
?>

 

And I get

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/wsad/public_html/tm/test.php on line 3

 

If someone could just get me started with a basic working bit of php I'm sure I'll be able to work it out.

[trq]

Try...

 

<?php

$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://www.wsad.co.uk/tm/ajax.php?plugin=Website&autologin=true&server_id=1");
echo $xml->name[0]->plot; // So this language. It's like...

?>

[Kibit]

Thanks for the quick reply, that clears the error but I now just get a plain white page,

 

How do I now tell it what info I want to display?

[Kibit]

I now have a basic working page using the following code...

 

<?php

$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://www.wsad.co.uk/tm/ajax.php?plugin=Website&autologin=true&server_id=1");


echo $xml->getName() . "<br />";

foreach($xml->children() as $child)
  {
  echo $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br />";
  }
?>

 

The page is here..

http://www.wsad.co.uk/tm/test.php

 

But as you can see that just outputs everything and I only want to show a couple of the details as outlined in the first post, Also where there are more than 1 result (I think its called an "array") such as...

 

<players>
−
<item>
<span class='tm-b'>[WSAD]<span style='color:#0f0'>Harding</span></span> 
</item>
</players>

 

Its not returning any results.

 

Any further help would be very gratefully received and since I noticed your on a donation drive I could be convinced to donate ;-)

[Kibit]

Bump,

 

Can anyone offer me any further help on this please.