Ok, so I thought I had this nailed , but sadly not . I have this XML:
//XML
this is root--> <story>
<article>
<title>my title </title>
<img>my image </img>
<link>my link </link
</article>
</story>
and then this PHP:
//php
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
$dom->loadXML($_SESSION['xml']);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$query = $xpath->query('//section/article');
foreach($query as $article ):
$currentTitle = $article->title ;
//edit - mistake in code - $article used for all
//$imagearray = $currentimg->img ;
//$linkarray = $currentlink->link ;
array_push( $availAds,$currentTitle,$imagearray,$linkarray );
endforeach;
So what I'm trying to do is get the 'Title' 'Img' and 'Link' values and insert them into a pre existing array. The array already outputs fine with the previously entered values, but I then need to be able to output the results of the updated array in this way:
printf(
'<input name="ads[%1$s][title]" value="%2$s" style="width:310px;" /><br />',
$availAd['image'],
$availAd['title']
);
The issue is right now , the foreach returns NULL for $currentTitle , $imagearray and $linkarray
As Gordon said: you need simplexml instead of domdocument/domxpath if you want to access child elements like $parent->childelements.
And you probably want to "group" the elements you put into the array for each article element, i.e. instead ofarray_push($arr, $x, $y, $z);
you probably wantarray_push($arr, array($x, $y, $z));
self-contained example:
<?php
$doc = getDoc();
$arr = foo($doc);
foreach($arr as $ad) {
echo $ad['title'], " ", $ad['img'], "
";
}
function foo(SimpleXMLElement $doc) {
$availAds = array();
$query = '//section/article';
foreach( $doc->xpath($query) as $article ) {
$currentTitle = $article->title ;
//edit - mistake in code - $article used for all
//$imagearray = $currentimg->img ;
//$linkarray = $currentlink->link ;
array_push( $availAds, array(
'title'=>(string)$article->title, // without the (string) cast
'img'=>(string)$article->img, // you'd store simplexmlelement instances
'link'=>(string)$article->link // which _might or might not_ be what you want
));
}
return $availAds;
}
function getDoc() {
return new SimpleXMLElement( <<< eoxml
<story>
<section>
<article>
<title>title 1.1</title>
<img>my image 1.1</img>
<link>my link 1.1</link>
</article>
<article>
<title>title 1.2</title>
<img>my image 1.2</img>
<link>my link 1.2</link>
</article>
</section>
<section>
<article>
<title>title 2.1</title>
<img>my image 2.1</img>
<link>my link 2.1</link>
</article>
</section>
</story>
eoxml
);
}
prints
title 1.1 my image 1.1
title 1.2 my image 1.2
title 2.1 my image 2.1
Try something like this:
$xml="<story>
<article>
<title>my title</title>
<img>my image</img>
<link>my link</link>
</article>
</story>
";
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
$availAds = array();
foreach($xml->article as $article):
$currentTitle = (string)$article->title ;
array_push( $availAds, $currentTitle );
endforeach;
print_r($availAds);