How to loop a specific xml content in php?

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by larissa , in category: PHP General , 10 months ago

How to loop a specific xml content in php?

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by haylee.mertz , 6 months ago

@larissa 

To loop through specific XML content in PHP, you can use the SimpleXMLElement class to load the XML data and then use a foreach loop to iterate through the specific content you want to access.


Here's an example of how you can do this:

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<?php
// Load the XML content into a SimpleXMLElement object
$xml = simplexml_load_file('example.xml');

// Loop through the specific content you want to access
foreach ($xml->children() as $item) {
    // Access specific elements or attributes within the content
    $name = $item->name;
    $age = $item->age;
    
    // Print out the content
    echo "Name: $name, Age: $age <br>";
}
?>


In this example, we are loading an XML file called 'example.xml' and then looping through the child elements of the root node in the XML. You can access specific elements or attributes within each child element by using the arrow operator (->) to navigate the XML structure.


Make sure to modify the code according to the structure of your XML data to properly access the specific content you want to loop through.