Extracting Certain XML Elements with PHP SimpleXML
- by Peter
I am having some problems parsing this piece of XML using SimpleXML. There is always only one Series element, and a variable number of Episode elements beneath. I want to parse XML so I can store the Series data in one table, and all the Episode data in another table.
XML:
<Data>
<Series>
<id>80348</id>
<Genre>|Action and Adventure|Comedy|Drama|</Genre>
<IMDB_ID>tt0934814</IMDB_ID>
<SeriesID>68724</SeriesID>
<SeriesName>Chuck</SeriesName>
<banner>graphical/80348-g.jpg</banner>
</Series>
<Episode>
<id>935481</id>
<Director>Robert Duncan McNeill</Director>
<EpisodeName>Chuck Versus the Third Dimension 2D</EpisodeName>
<EpisodeNumber>1</EpisodeNumber>
<seasonid>27984</seasonid>
<seriesid>80348</seriesid>
</Episode>
<Episode>
<id>935483</id>
<Director>Robert Duncan McNeill</Director>
<EpisodeName>Buy More #15: Employee Health</EpisodeName>
<EpisodeNumber>2</EpisodeNumber>
<seasonid>27984</seasonid>
<seriesid>80348</seriesid>
</Episode>
</Data>
When I attempt to access just the first Series element and child nodes, or iterate through the Episode elements only it does not work. I have also tried to use DOMDocument with SimpleXML, but could not get that to work at all.
PHP Code:
<?php
if(file_exists('en.xml'))
{
$data = simplexml_load_file('en.xml');
foreach($data as $series)
{
echo 'id: <br />' . $series->id;
echo 'imdb: <br />' . $series->IMDB_ID;
}
}
?>
Output:
id:80348
imdb:tt0934814
id:935481
imdb:
id:1534641
imdb:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
