Re: [PHP] Easy way to grab a value out of XML?

2005-04-05 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, April 1, 2005 1:53 pm, Brian Dunning said: > I've been looking at the XML commands and am feeling a bit overwhelmed. > My needs are simple and I'm hoping there's an easy solution that I'm > just missing. I have a hunk of well-formed XML in a variable, $xml, and > it contains only one instan

Re: [PHP] Easy way to grab a value out of XML?

2005-04-02 Thread Burhan Khalid
Brian Dunning wrote: I've been looking at the XML commands and am feeling a bit overwhelmed. My needs are simple and I'm hoping there's an easy solution that I'm just missing. I have a hunk of well-formed XML in a variable, $xml, and it contains only one instance of x.xx. I just want to get the

Re: [PHP] Easy way to grab a value out of XML?

2005-04-01 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
The XML functions really aren't that hard to use. If you just want a simple parse to pick out something have a look at: for PHP4: http://php.net/xml_parse_into_struct for PHP5: http://php.net/simplexml_load_file -Rasmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can handle xml output as if a string file, then

Re: [PHP] Easy way to grab a value out of XML?

2005-04-01 Thread emre
you can handle xml output as if a string file, then easily parse xml file with preg_match / preg_match_all, smt like this can do the job: $str="somevalueheresomevaluehere2somevaluehere2etc"; preg_match_all("/([^<])*<\/price>/i", $str, $matches); echo count($matches[0]); for ($i=0; $i< count($ma

Re: [PHP] Easy way to grab a value out of XML?

2005-04-01 Thread Franklin van de Meent
If you are using PHP5 check out SimpleXML (http://php.net/simplexml) On Apr 1, 2005 10:53 PM, Brian Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking at the XML commands and am feeling a bit overwhelmed. > My needs are simple and I'm hoping there's an easy solution that I'm > just missing.

Re: [PHP] Easy Way.

2003-03-09 Thread Chris Hayes
At 22:23 9-3-2003, you wrote: You're looking for the str_pad function. http://www.php.net/str_pad $i = 3; $i = str_pad($i, 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); echo $i; // outputs '3' Just keep in mind that it won't help you if your input is greater than 5 to begin with, you'll have to check that seperately

Re: [PHP] Easy Way.

2003-03-09 Thread Vincent M.
Jason Sheets wrote: Hello, Use str_pad, the manual page is available at http://www.php.net/str_pad, a short example would be: $i = 3; $i = str_pad($i, 5, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); This function is described in the PHP manual in the string functions section, the manual is an excellent place to go first w

Re: [PHP] Easy Way.

2003-03-09 Thread Mark Heintz PHP Mailing Lists
You're looking for the str_pad function. http://www.php.net/str_pad $i = 3; $i = str_pad($i, 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); echo $i; // outputs '3' Just keep in mind that it won't help you if your input is greater than 5 to begin with, you'll have to check that seperately. $j = 123456; $j = str_pad

Re: [PHP] Easy Way.

2003-03-09 Thread Jason Sheets
Hello, Use str_pad, the manual page is available at http://www.php.net/str_pad, a short example would be: $i = 3; $i = str_pad($i, 5, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); This function is described in the PHP manual in the string functions section, the manual is an excellent place to go first when questions such