PHP-XML and variables

[Anon]

Hello,

I have recently been trying to use templates with XML documents. My problem however is that I cannot get the values between XML tags into variables. For example

Example XML Document:
<me>
<name>
Foo-Bar
</name>
</me>

What would I need to do, so that I can get the contents of the <name> tag (Foo-Bar) into a variable?

[Anon]

Assuming <name>s aren't nested, and assuming you don't want to use PHP's XML functions.

preg_match('|<name>(.*?)</name>|si', $xml, $match);

will give the contents of the first available <name> tag (including whitespace) in $match[1].

Change preg_match to preg_match_all, and $match[1] will be an array with all the <name> contents.

[Anon]

No, i am using the PHP XML Parser functions, but when i use a switch or if statement to go through the different tags in the document i cannot place the data into another variable, for some reason if i try to do this it doesnt work and the data doesnt disply at all.