SimpleXMLElemtent not reading attributes?

PHP
1

I’m getting an rss feed from flickr, and using SimpleXMLElement, however it seems to not pick up on attributes?

$feedurl = "http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=48839201@N07&lang=en-us&format=rss_200";
	
	$curl_handle=curl_init();
	curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,$feedurl);
	curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
	curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
	$feed = curl_exec($curl_handle);
	curl_close($curl_handle);
	
	$curl = curl_init($feedurl);
	curl_setopt_array(
	    $curl,
	    array(
	        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT  => 5,
	        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  => true
	    )
	);
	
	if(false !== ($data = curl_exec($curl))){
	    try{
	        $xmlData = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
	    }catch(Exception $exception){
	        $xmlData = false;
	    }
	}
		
	if($xmlData != false) { 
		
		print_r($xmlData);
		
	} else {

	echo "Error";
	
	}

It doesn’t seem to get “<media:thumbnail>” or “<media:category>” and all that… any idea why?

It only picks:

[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[title] =>
[link] =>
[description] =>
[pubDate] =>
[author] =>
[guid] =>
)

*obviously filled in, I just removed all the content

2

I don’t see any tags with media:thumbnail in that url. It’s just not in the XML file. Have you looked at that contents of the XML file?

3

It’s showing it for me…?

4

Given your example code, here’s one way of accessing those media:thumbnail nodes.


foreach ($xmlData->channel->item as $item) {
    // Get media:* nodes for this item
    $media = $item->children("media", TRUE);
    // Get the first thumbnail node's attributes
    $thumb = $media->thumbnail[0]->attributes();
    // Print image URL and dimensions
    printf("&#37;s (%dx%d)\
", $thumb->url, $thumb->width, $thumb->height);
}

More info:
SimpleXMLElement::children for accessing namespaced children of a node.
SimpleXMLElement::attributes for accessing attributes (the $node[‘attr’] syntax doesn’t appear to be available in this case).

P.S. Don’t be concerned that you cannot see the media:* nodes via print_r or var_dump, that’s perfectly normal (though confusing at first sight) behaviour.