unable to parse soap xml in php

**captainbarner** · 05-27-2022, 02:45 AM

I am trying to get shipping cost from DHL using soap . I got result as xml string

Code:

string(376) "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Details><ShippingCharge>2002.190</ShippingCharge><TotalTaxAmount>305.420</TotalTaxAmount></Details>"

simplexml_load_string function not parsing response. Is there anyway to get data from xml element

Thank you

**coothead** · 05-27-2022, 05:20 PM

Hi there captainbarner,

I would suggest tha you use simplexml_load_file rather than simplexml_load_string

Using a sample xml file from https://www.learningcontainer.com/sample-xml-file/,
here is a basic example...

PHP Code:


<?php

 $xmldata = simplexml_load_file(

  "https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Sample-employee-XML-file.xml") 

   or die("Failed to load");

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<html lang="en">

<head>



<meta charset="utf-8">

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,height=device-height,initial-scale=1">



<title>using xml data</title>



<link rel="stylesheet" href="screen.css" media="screen">



<style media="screen">

body {

    background-color: #f9f9f9;

    font: normal 1em / 1.5em  sans-serif;

 }

h1{

    font-size: 1.5em;

    color: #444;

    text-align: center;

 }

table {

    margin: auto;

    border-collapse: collapse;

    background-color: #fff;

}

th,td {

    padding: 0.25em 0.5em;

    border: 1px solid #000;

}

</style>



</head>

<body>



<h1>PHP display XML content</h1>



<table>

<thead>

<tr>

<th>First Name</th>

<th>Last Name</th>

<th>Title</th>

<th>Division</th>  

<th>Building</th>

<th>Room</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

<?php 

foreach($xmldata->children() as $empl) { 

echo "<tr>\n";        

 echo "<td>". $empl->firstname . "</td>\n";     

 echo "<td>". $empl->lastname . "</td>\n";     

 echo "<td>". $empl->title . "</td>\n";        

 echo "<td>". $empl->division . "</td>\n";

 echo "<td>". $empl->building . "</td>\n";

 echo "<td>". $empl->room . "</td></tr>\n"; 

} 

?>

</tbody>

</table>



</body>

</html>