Get value from SimpleXMLElement Object

Question

I have something like this:

$url = "http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPostalCodes?country=pl&placename=";
$url .= rawurlencode($city[$i]);

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
echo $url."\n";
$cityCode[] = array(
    'city' => $city[$i], 
    'lat' => $xml->code[0]->lat, 
    'lng' => $xml->code[0]->lng
);

It's supposed to download XML from geonames. If I do print_r($xml) I get :

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [code] => Array
        (
            [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                (
                    [postalcode] => 01-935
                    [name] => Warszawa
                    [countryCode] => PL
                    [lat] => 52.25
                    [lng] => 21.0
                    [adminCode1] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                        (
                        )

                    [adminName1] => Mazowieckie
                    [adminCode2] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                        (
                        )

                    [adminName2] => Warszawa
                    [adminCode3] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                        (
                        )

                    [adminName3] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                        (
                        )

                    [distance] => 0.0
                )

I do as you can see $xml->code[0]->lat and it returns an object. How can i get the value?

Answer 1

if you don't know the value of XML Element, you can use

$value = (string) $xml->code[0]->lat;

if (ctype_digit($value)) {
    // the value is probably an integer because consists only of digits
}

It works when you need to determine if value is a number, because (string) will always return string and is_int($value) returns false

Answer 2

foreach($xml->code as $vals )
{ 
    unset($geonames);
    $vals=(array)$vals;
    foreach($vals as $key => $value)
      {
        $value=(array)$value;
        $geonames[$key]=$value[0];
      }
}
print_r($geonames);

Answer 3

You can also use the magic method __toString()

$xml->code[0]->lat->__toString()

Answer 4

try current($xml->code[0]->lat)

it returns element under current pointer of array, which is 0, so you will get value

Answer 5

$codeZero = null;
foreach ($xml->code->children() as $child) {
   $codeZero = $child;
}

$lat = null;
foreach ($codeZero->children() as $child) {
   if (isset($child->lat)) {
      $lat = $child->lat;
   }
}

Answer 6

you can use the '{}' to access you property, and then you can do as you wish. Save it or display the content.

    $varName = $xml->{'key'};

From your example her's the code

        $filePath = __DIR__ . 'Your path ';
        $fileName = 'YourFilename.xml';

        if (file_exists($filePath . $fileName)) {
            $xml = simplexml_load_file($filePath . $fileName);
            $mainNode = $xml->{'code'};

            $cityArray = array();

            foreach ($mainNode as $key => $data)        {
               $cityArray[..] = $mainNode[$key]['cityCode'];
               ....

            }     

        }