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>




















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