simplexml_load_file：如果主标记包含某些内容

Question

I'm not so sure about the title, will try to explain in the next lines.

I have an xml file like this :

 <CAR park="3" id="1" bay="0">
    <SITE_ID>0</SITE_ID>
    <SITE_NAME>Car Seller 1</SITE_NAME>
    . . .
 </CAR>

I am sucessfully iterating through my xml to get all the data. But, I want to be able to filter by bays. I want to do something like

$xml = simplexml_load_file('myfile.xml');
$x = 1;
    foreach($xml as $car) {
    if($car->bay == '0'){
        echo $car->SITE_ID;
    $x++;
     }

    }

Answer 1

You can use XPath to fetch only the bay 0 cars...

$bay0 = $xml->xpath('//CAR[@bay="0"]');
foreach ( $bay0 as $car )   {
    echo $car->SITE_ID.PHP_EOL;
}

The XPath statement is simply - any CAR element that has an attribute bay with the value 0 in it.

In case you need to access attributes in other cases, with SimpleXML - you access them as though they are array elements, so it would be $car['bay'] in the code you had above.