xml element question...

cowboysdude

I'm trying to get some info out of an external xml file...

It's all working except one thing and I cannot figure out why ....

Here is what I have... from the nfl.xml file..

<gms w="22" y="2014" t="POST" gd="0" bf="0" bph="0"> 
<g eid="2015010301" gsis="56492" d="Sat" t="8:15" q="F" htn="Pittsburgh Steelers" hnn="steelers" h="PIT" hs="17" vtn="Baltimore Ravens" vnn="ravens" v="BAL" vs="30" n="NBC" rz="0" ga="" o="1" gt="WC"/>

I am able to get the elements 'w' 'htn' 'hs' 'vnn' 'vs' but what I'm not trying to do is get the 'g eid' element...

Here is what I have:

$gdate = (int)$xml->gms['g eid']; 
$arr1 = str_split($gdate); 
print_r($arr1);

I did this to see what it was returning and it returns Array ( [0] => 0 )

Can anyone give me a clue what I"m doing wrong here...

I want to get that line...explode it and return the value as a date... so g eid="2015010301" actually means 01/03/2015.. and that's what I'm trying to get to. Just not sure what I'm doing wrong here...

Thanks in advance!!

John

sneakyimp

Firstly <gms> and <g> are elements, but , w, htn, hs, vnn, and vs look like attributes of elements to me.

Secondly, you haven't given us any indication of how you defined $xml so we have no idea what kind of object it might be.

Third, you are casting $gdate as an (int) and then running str_split (which expects a string parameter) on the resulting integer.

jenfreddy

To resolve the problem you are facing you got to define the complete code. This may help in finding the error.

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Weedpacket

jenfreddy wrote:
To resolve the problem you are facing you got to define the complete code. This may help in finding the error.

No, piling in a lot of irrelevant stuff is not going to help.

I'd say sneakyimp has it right: there's no such thing as a "g eid" element (because element names don't have spaces in them).