Parsing basic XML with PHP

[rollytan]

I am currently working on a script that does a GET from a remote server that returns XML type data. It returns the following:

<Users><User LoginName="test5" Alias="Testing" UserType="PAID" ClientType="OBM" Quota="100000" Timezone="GMT-06:00 (CST)" Language="en" DataFile="0" DataSize="0" RetainFile="0" RetainSize="0" EnableMSSQL="Y" EnableMSExchange="N" EnableOracle="Y" EnableLotusNotes="Y" EnableLotusDomino="Y" EnableMySQL="Y" EnableInFileDelta="Y" EnableShadowCopy="N" EnableExchangeMailbox="Y" ExchangeMailboxQuota="10" Bandwidth="0" Notes=""><Contact Name="Testing" Email="[e-mail]"/><Contact Name="john" Email="[e-mail]"/><Contact Name="paul" Email="[e-mail] "/></User></Users>

I simply need to parse each element of the "user" node and get the value. can anyone offer a simple PHP function that will do this? the XML parse routines ive seen seem like overkill so far. If I have to write a custom php script that is fine but figured I'd check before I go that route. Thanks in advance.

Ronnie
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[Weedpacket]

rollytan wrote:

I simply need to parse each element of the "user" node and get the value

The XPath query for that would be

//User/@...

No, wait, I can't answer that because I don't know what "value" is supposed to be referring to - there are no elements or attributes with that name in that XML.

[rollytan]

All it has in it is the main parent node "<Users>" then a node under that called <user> with a bunch of subnodes of that one main one

<Users><User LoginNaname="sdfsdfsdfd" loginpassword="sdfsdfsdf"></User></Users>

Is there a basic PHP XML parser?

thanks
Ronnie
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[Weedpacket]

rollytan wrote:

All it has in it is...

I can read the XML, I was just asking what this "value" is you refer to. After all, if you can't explain it to a human you certainly won't be able to explain it to a machine.

Is there a basic PHP XML parser?

[man]simplexml[/man]

[rollytan]

Yes for instance 'UserType="PAID"' the node so to speak would be 'UserType' and the value I am referring to is "PAID". This could be "PAID" or "TRIAL" so just want to be able to parse all the individual stuff with a canned function