PHP-计数XML子节点

Question

I have XML that looks like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<apiresponse>
  <response>
    <services>
      <service>
        <Carrier>Carrier1</Carrier>
      </service>
      <service>
        <Carrier>Carrier2</Carrier>
      </service>
      <service>
        <Carrier>Carrier3</Carrier>
      </service>
      <service>
        <Carrier>Carrier4</Carrier>
      </service>
    </services>
  </response>
</apiresponse>

This is stored inside the variable $result .

I want to count the number of nodes within services . How do I go about this when the services node doesn't have a name or ID?

I tried the following but it didn't work:

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($result);
echo count($xml->services);

Thanks!

Answer 1

you can simply use this:

echo $xml->response->services->service->count();

or you use a loop:

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($result);

foreach ($xml as $services) {
    foreach($services as $service) {
        echo "<pre>";
        print_r($service->count());
        echo "</pre>";
    }
}