如何从字典中获取XML数据

Question

Below is XML format:

    <item>
                <title>Lorem ipsum</title>
                <link>http://www.website.com</link>
                <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
                <description>
                    <![CDATA[Dummy text Dummy text Dummy text]]>
                </description>

                <title>Lorem ipsum test</title>
                <link>http://www.test.com</link>
                <pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2015 16:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
                <description>
                    <![CDATA[Dummy text test Dummy text test Dummy text test]]>
                </description>
    </item>

What i have tried:

    <?php
    $rss = file_get_contents('<URL>');
    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($rss);
    foreach($xml->channel->item as $feed){
        $title = $feed->title;
        $added_date_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($date));
        $description = $feed->description;
        print_r($title);
        print_r($description);
    }
    ?>

it is giving me this output for description:

SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( ) )

How can i get description data?

Answer 1

You can try php:s SimpleXML: Load your XML, then access the element

$items = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstring);
echo $items->description;

EDIT: ok, i see that you have changed your XML in the question now, but the solution should still work. The code echoes "dymmy..." on this sandbox too: http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/ Something in your description is missing, or you are running a strange system. You can alternatively try this loading of the sring (should convert cadata objects to clean strings)

$items = simplexml_load_string($xmlstring, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);

Further, you can try to cast the element you are getting to a strin:

echo (string) $items->description;