I have an XML file with this structure and I want to read it from Laravel, for this I use SimpleXMLElement.
I can access the "id" and "color" attributes but I don't know how to access the value, in this case the example is "Porsche or Ferrari"
XML file
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cars>
<car id="0001" colour="blue">porsche</car>
<car id="0002" colour="red">ferrari</car>
</cars>
PHP code
$xmlString = file_get_contents($filename);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlString);
foreach ($xml->children() as $child) {
dd($child);
}
Output result
SimpleXMLElement {#562
+"@attributes": array:2 [
"id" => "0001"
"colour" => "blue"
]
+"0": "porsche"
}
I can access the ID or color using $child['id'] or $child['colour'] but I don't know how to access the value of Ferrari or Porsche
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You can access attributes and properties like this:
$xmlString = file_get_contents($filename); $xml = new \SimpleXMLElement($xmlString); foreach ($xml->children() as $car) { echo $car; // porsche echo $car['id']; // 0001 echo $car['colour']; // blue $carName = (string) $car; $carId = $car['id']; $carColour = $car['colour']; }