(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
simplexml_load_string — Interprets a string of XML into an object
$data,$class_name = SimpleXMLElement::class,$options = 0,$namespace_or_prefix = "",$is_prefix = falseTakes a well-formed XML string and returns it as an object.
dataA well-formed XML string
class_nameYou 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
Bitwise OR
of the libxml option constants.
namespace_or_prefixNamespace prefix or URI.
is_prefix
true if namespace_or_prefix 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.
This function may
return Boolean false, but may also return a non-Boolean value which
evaluates to false. Please read the section on Booleans for more
information. Use the ===
operator for testing the return value of this
function.
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.