Access attribute and element value in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to access attribute and element value.

Example


<?php//from  www. j  a  v  a2s .  co m
$xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<?php
foreach ($xml->book as $book) {
  echo '<h2>' . $book->title . '</h2>';
  
  $num_authors = count($book->author);
  echo '<p class="author">';
  foreach ($book->author as $author) {
    echo $author;
  }
  for ($i = 0; $i < $num_authors; $i++) {
    echo $book->author[$i];
    if ($num_authors == 1) {
      break;
    } elseif ($i < ($num_authors - 2)) {
      echo ', ';
    } elseif ($i == ($num_authors - 2)) {
      echo ' &amp; ';
    }
  }
  echo '</p>';
                
  echo '<p class="publisher">' . $book->publisher . '</p>';
  echo '<p class="publisher">ISBN: ' . $book['isbn13'] . '</p>';
                  
  echo '<p>' . $book->description . '</p>';
}
?>
</body>
</html>

The following code is for test.xml.


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<inventory>//from w  w  w.j  a  va  2  s .c o m
  <book isbn13='1'>
    <title>PHP</title>
  <author>Jack</author>
  <publisher>Publisher 1</publisher>
  <description>PHP Book</description>
  </book>
  <book isbn13='2'>
    <title>XML</title>
  <author>Jane</author>
  <publisher>Publisher 2</publisher>
  <description>XML Book</description>
  </book>
</inventory>

The code above generates the following result.





















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