PHP SimpleXML + Get Attribute

Question

The XML I am reading looks like this:

    The Big Bang Theory
    http://www.tvrage.com/The_Bi         


        

Answer 1

This should work.

$id = $xml["id"];

Your XML root becomes the root of the SimpleXML object; your code is calling a chid root by the name of 'show', which doesn't exist.

You can also use this link for some tutorials: http://php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php

Answer 2

This should work. You need to use attributes with type (if sting value use (string))

$id = (string) $xml->show->attributes()->id;
var_dump($id);

Or this:

$id = strip_tags($xml->show->attributes()->id);
var_dump($id);

Answer 3

You need to use attributes

I believe this should work

$id = $xml->show->attributes()->id;

Answer 4

You need to use attributes() to get the attributes.

$id = $xml->show->attributes()->id;

You can also do this:

$attr = $xml->show->attributes();
$id = $attr['id'];

Or you can try this:

$id = $xml->show['id'];

Looking at the edit to your question (<show> is your root element), try this:

$id = $xml->attributes()->id;

OR

$attr = $xml->attributes();
$id = $attr['id'];

OR

$id = $xml['id'];

Answer 5

After you have correctly load the xml file using the SimpleXML objecto you can do a print_r($xml_variable) and you can easily find which attributes you can access. As other users said $xml['id'] also worked for me.

Answer 6

try this

$id = (int)$xml->show->attributes()->id;