This is an example of an xml file structure:
<participants>
<participant>
<number>1</number>
<name>toto</name>
</participant>
<participant>
<number>2</number>
<name>titi</titi>
</participant>
<participant>
<number>3</number>
<name>tata</titi>
</participant>
</participants>
The goal is to directly access a specific node in the XML by using the participant number for updating or deletion.
However, there seems to be an issue with variable $x as both echo $x->number and echo $x->name return blank values causing the if statement to be false.
$x = $participant->item($number);
echo 'number = '.$x->number;
echo 'name = '.$x->name;
Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
$number=2;
if ($xml = file_get_contents($file))
{
$xmldoc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
$xmldoc->loadXML($xml, LIBXML_NOBLANKS);
// locate the participants tag
$root = $xmldoc->getElementsByTagName('participants')->item(0);
// retrieve the list of participant nodes
$participant = $xmldoc->getElementsByTagName('participant') ;
echo $participant->length; // Number of participant nodes
// find the node based on the provided number
$x = $participant->item($number);
echo 'number = '.$x->number;
echo 'name = '.$x->name;
if ($x->number == $number) {
echo "remove";
$participant.removeChild($x);
}
}