Writing only last object in xml

[I am Abby]

I have a page that has a default message unless you change it. So when there's only one record in the xml you will see the default...but it you add a record the page will display that.

So I want my page to only print the last record in the xml.

The xml

<myusers>
  <messages>
    <id>1</id>
    <message>words words and more words</message>
  </messages>
</myusers>

<?php
 $file = 'myxml.xml';
 $xml = simplexml_load_file($file);

 foreach($xml->children as messages)
 {
    $i = count ($xml->messages)-1;
    echo $messages[$i]->message;
 }
?>

I would thing this would print the last message only...but that's not what I'm getting.

[I am Abby]

I tried

<?php
 $file = 'myxml.xml';
 $xml = simplexml_load_file($file);

 $i = count($xml->messages)-1;
 for($x=$i;$x>=0;$x--)
 {
    echo '
           <hr>'
           .$id.'<br />'
           .$messages[$x]->message;
 }
?>

which gives me a "<hr>" line across the page for every item in my xml. But I don't get anything in the xml printed out.

[I am Abby]

I tried

<?php
 $file = 'myxml.xml';
 $xml = simplexml_load_file($file);

 $i = count($xml->messages)-1;
 for($x=$i;$x>=0;$x--)
 {
    echo '
           <hr>'
           .$id.'<br />'
           .$messages[$x]->message;
 }
?>

w

In case anyone else has this problem the answer is to use

echo '
        <hr>'
        .$xml->messages[$x]->id.'<br />'
        .$xml->messages[$x]->message;
        break;

the above will print the last item in your xml only.

Yea me!

[katierosy]

If you will write like this, you may be able to see the result as expected.

<?php
$file = "myxml.xml";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($file);
$cnt = count($xml->messages);

for($i=0;$i<$cnt;$i++){

if($i==$cnt-2){
print $xml->messages[$i]->message;
}

}

?>

[I am Abby]

[QUOTE=katierosy;226454]
if($i==$cnt-2)
QUOTE]

katierosy,
I'm not sure I understand this line...why -2 and not -1?