ID: 46517
Comment by: sites at hubmed dot org
Reported By: sites at hubmed dot org
Status: Open
Bug Type: SimpleXML related
Operating System: Mac OS X
PHP Version: 5.2CVS-2008-11-07 (CVS)
New Comment:
Actually, it seems that using foreach($xml->item) works the same
whether there's one item or multiple, so it's possible to work around
this using the following:
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$items = array();
foreach ($xml->item as $item)
$items[] = $item;
==========
That seems to always produce an array of the appropriate objects.
Previous Comments:
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[2008-11-07 15:30:19] sites at hubmed dot org
Description:
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This is a duplicate of bug 45023, which is marked as bogus but needs
reopening.
I'm seeing the same problem with the latest CVS version:
PHP 5.2.7RC2-dev (cli) (built: Nov 7 2008 15:02:08)
Mac OS 10.5.5
libxml2 2.6.30
At the moment, it's not possible to check whether a SimpleXML element
is an array or an object and iterate appropriately (as foreach() will
iterate over both an array and an object).
Reproduce code:
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$xml =
simplexml_load_string('<root><item>a</item><item>b</item></root>');
print_r($xml);
foreach ($xml->item as $item)
print "\n" . 'Item: ' . (string) $item;
print "\n";
print'Type: ' . gettype($xml->item);
print "\n";
print is_array($xml->item) ? 'Is an array' : 'Not an array';
print "\n";
print_r($xml->item);
print_r($xml->item[1]);
Expected result:
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gettype($xml->item) should return 'array', and is_array($xml->item)
should return true.
$xml->item should retrieve the whole array, not just the first item.
Actual result:
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SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[item] => Array
(
[0] => a
[1] => b
)
)
Item: a
Item: b
Type: object
Not an array
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[0] => a
)
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[0] => b
)
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