Note that you must provide the namespace if you want to access an attribute of a non-default namespace:
Consider the following example:
<?php
$xml = <<<XML
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet">
<Table Foo="Bar" ss:ExpandedColumnCount="7">
</Table>
</Workbook>
XML;
$sxml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
/**
* Access attribute of default namespace
*/
var_dump((string) $sxml->Table[0]['Foo']);
// outputs: 'Bar'
/**
* Access attribute of non-default namespace
*/
var_dump((int) $sxml->Table[0]['ExpandedColumnCount']);
// outputs: 0
var_dump((int) $sxml->Table[0]->attributes('ss', TRUE)->ExpandedColumnCount);
// outputs: '7'
?>
SimpleXMLElement::attributes
(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1)
SimpleXMLElement::attributes — Identifies an element's attributes
Descrizione
$ns = NULL
[, bool $is_prefix = false
]] )This function provides the attributes and values defined within an xml tag.
Nota: SimpleXML possiede regole per aggiungere proprietĂ iterative a diversi metodi. Queste non possono essere visualizzate con var_dump() o qualsiasi altra cosa che possa esaminare gli oggetti.
Elenco dei parametri
-
ns -
An optional namespace for the retrieved attributes
-
is_prefix -
Default to
FALSE
Valori restituiti
Returns a SimpleXMLElement object that can be iterated over to loop through the attributes on the tag.
Returns NULL if called on a SimpleXMLElement
object that already represents an attribute and not a tag.
Esempi
Example #1 Interpret an XML string
<?php
$string = <<<XML
<a>
<foo name="one" game="lonely">1</foo>
</a>
XML;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
foreach($xml->foo[0]->attributes() as $a => $b) {
echo $a,'="',$b,"\"\n";
}
?>
Il precedente esempio visualizzerĂ :
name="one" game="lonely"
If you want to save the value of an attribute into an array, typecast it to a string.
<?php
// stores an xml-element-object
$dataStore['value'] = $attributes->myValue
// stores the value of the attribute
$dataStore['value'] = (string)$attributes->myValue
?>
To get an attribute in the node, use node->attributes()->attributeName
It is really simple to access attributes using array form. However, you must convert them to strings or ints if you plan on passing the values to functions.
<?php
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[@attributes] => Array
(
[id] => 55555
)
[text] => "hello world"
)
?>
Then using a function
<?php
function xml_attribute($object, $attribute)
{
if(isset($object[$attribute]))
return (string) $object[$attribute];
}
?>
I can get the "id" like this
<?php
print xml_attribute($xml, 'id'); //prints "55555"
?>
<?php
$att = 'attribueName';
// You can access an element's attribute just like this :
$attribute = $element->attributes()->$att;
// This will save the value of the attribute, and not the objet
$attribute = (string)$element->attributes()->$att;
// You also can edit it this way :
$element->attributes()->$att = 'New value of the attribute';
?>
Tip to get a real array of all attributes of a node (not SimpleXML's object acting like an array)
<?php
//- $node is a SimpleXMLElement object
$atts_object = $node->attributes(); //- get all attributes, this is not a real array
$atts_array = (array) $atts_object; //- typecast to an array
//- grab the value of '@attributes' key, which contains the array your after
$atts_array = $atts_array['@attributes'];
var_dump($atts_object); //- outputs object(SimpleXMLElement)[19]
//- public '@attributes' => ...
var_dump($atts_array); //- outputs array (size=11) ...
?>
Hope this helps!
So lets say you have database type data in an XML string called $xmlstring with the key or item ID as an XML Attribute and all content data as regular XML Elements, as above. SimpleXML processes the Attributes as an array, so we can play along and push the Attributes into an array. Then we can get the value of any specific Attribute we want by addressing it by name, such as "ID".
Considering this data:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
<item ID="30001">
<Company>Navarro Corp.</Company>
</item>
<item ID="30002">
<Company>Performant Systems</Company>
</item>
<item ID="30003">
<Company>Digital Showcase</Company>
</item>
</data>
Example of listing both the ID Attribute and Company Element values:
<?php
$xmlObject = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstring);
foreach ($xmlObject->children() as $node) {
$arr = $node->attributes(); // returns an array
print ("ID=".$arr["ID"]); // get the value of this attribute
print (" Company=".$node->Company);
print ("<p><hr>");
}
?>
Reading the attributes of the root element with name space prefixes as in an Atom feed
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" gd:etag="W/"Ck4EQXYzeCp7ImA9WhZWFE4."">
<?php
$xml = @simplexml_load_file($feed);
$att_gd = $xml->attributes("gd",1);
$Etag = $att_gd["etag"];
?>
You can also access the node as an array to get attributes:
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('file.xml');
echo 'Attribute: ' . $xml['attribute'];
?>
here's a simple function to get an attribute by name, based on the example
<?php
function findAttribute($object, $attribute) {
foreach($object->attributes() as $a => $b) {
if ($a == $attribute) {
$return = $b;
}
}
if($return) {
return $return;
}
}
?>
