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simplexml_load_string — Interprets a string of XML into an object
$data
[, string $class_name
= "SimpleXMLElement"
[, int $options
= 0
[, string $ns
= ""
[, bool $is_prefix
= false
]]]] )Takes a well-formed XML string and returns it as an object.
data
A well-formed XML string
class_name
You may use this optional parameter so that simplexml_load_string() will return an object of the specified class. That class should extend the SimpleXMLElement class.
options
Since PHP 5.1.0 and Libxml 2.6.0, you may also use the
options
parameter to specify additional Libxml parameters.
ns
Namespace prefix or URI.
is_prefix
TRUE
if ns
is a prefix, FALSE
if it's a URI;
defaults to FALSE
.
Returns an object of class SimpleXMLElement with
properties containing the data held within the xml document, or FALSE
on failure.
Produces an E_WARNING
error message for each error
found in the XML data.
Use libxml_use_internal_errors() to suppress all XML errors, and libxml_get_errors() to iterate over them afterwards.
Example #1 Interpret an XML string
<?php
$string = <<<XML
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<document>
<title>Forty What?</title>
<from>Joe</from>
<to>Jane</to>
<body>
I know that's the answer -- but what's the question?
</body>
</document>
XML;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
print_r($xml);
?>
The above example will output:
SimpleXMLElement Object ( [title] => Forty What? [from] => Joe [to] => Jane [body] => I know that's the answer -- but what's the question? )
At this point, you can go about using $xml->body and such.