使用PHP从XML文档中的属性中提取信息

Question

I was unable to find an answer to my question after browsing some promising titles so I figured I would try my luck!

I'm attempting to extract information from XML files generated from a back-end we use at work. The information is not formatted like a normal XML document, so it's been a little difficult to extract what I need. I'm hoping that I can eventually put this information in a table, but I'll be happy if I can at least extract the values.

An example string is as follows:

<Event Name="Last Reef" VenueName="Theater" EventDate="2014-03-21 15:00:00" DirectLink="https://tickets.ctsciencecenter.org/Public/loader.asp?target=hall.asp?event=45259"/>

And I'm trying to get:

Event Name:
Venue Name:
Event Date:
Direct Link:

I'm assuming I need to use substr, but I've never dealt with a string like this.

If you take a moment to look at this, I would greatly appreciate it!

Answer 1

simplexml_load_string() makes working with XML easy for basic tasks like this:

<?php
$event= simplexml_load_string('<Event Name="Last Reef" VenueName="Theater" EventDate="2014-03-21 15:00:00" DirectLink="https://tickets.ctsciencecenter.org/Public/loader.asp?target=hall.asp?event=45259"/>');
?>

Event Name: <?= $event['Name']; ?><br>
Venue Name: <?= $event['VenueName']; ?><br>
Event Date: <?= $event['EventDate']; ?><br>
Direct Link: <?= $event['DirectLink']; ?>

See it in action