Get element value type in PHP
Description
The following code shows how to get element value type.
Example
<?php// w w w . ja va2s . c o m
$xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<?php
foreach ($xml->book as $book) {
echo '<h2>' . $book->title . '</h2>';
echo '<p class="author">';
echo gettype($book->author);
echo '</p>';
echo '<p class="publisher">' . $book->publisher . '</p>';
echo '<p class="publisher">ISBN: ' . $book['isbn13'] . '</p>';
echo '<p>' . $book->description . '</p>';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
The following code is for test.xml.
//from w w w . j a v a2 s.c om
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<inventory>
<book isbn13='1'>
<title>PHP</title>
<author>Jack</author>
<publisher>Publisher 1</publisher>
<description>PHP Book</description>
</book>
<book isbn13='2'>
<title>XML</title>
<author>Jane</author>
<publisher>Publisher 2</publisher>
<description>XML Book</description>
</book>
</inventory>