Getting viewCount from XML [duplicate]

Answer 1

For other people: the OP wants to access the <yt:statistics favoriteCount="0" viewCount="301" /> node that is a child of <entry> node.

Try this (xpath):

$file = simplexml_load_file('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/gudjondaniel/uploads?max-results=1');
var_dump($file->xpath('//yt:statistics'));

You will see this:

array(1) {
  [0] =>
  class SimpleXMLElement#13 (1) {
    public $@attributes =>
    array(2) {
      'favoriteCount' =>
      string(1) "0"
      'viewCount' =>
      string(3) "301"
    }
  }
}

edit:

Final code will look like this:

$file = simplexml_load_file('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/gudjondaniel/uploads?max-results=1');
$xpath = $file->xpath('//yt:statistics');
$attrs = $xpath[0]->attributes();
echo (string) $attrs->viewCount;

By the way, SimpleXMLElement is a gibberish-PHP tool that - as you can see - makes it hardly possible to access element like <yt:statistics>. Other platforms use xpath as a standard.