I am getting the correct response from Flickr which is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rsp stat="ok">
<photoset id="72157630469695108" owner="15823425@N00" primary="5110549866" secret="fd716fb5ee" server="1136" farm="2" photos="101" count_views="67" count_comments="0" count_photos="101" count_videos="0" can_comment="0" date_create="1341701808" date_update="1345054078">
<title>Montana</title>
<description />
</photoset>
</rsp>
For some reason I can't get the title, I've tried the following:
$album_info = simplexml_load_file($album_info_xml); // this is what the response is stored in
echo $album_info['photoset']['title'];
foreach($album_info->photoset as $ps) {
echo $ps['title'];
}
And a couple of other crazy things, I know it's something silly but don't know what it is I have missed.
Response can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/flickr.photosets.getInfo
Just use 72157630469695108 as the set id or alternatively use this url: http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photosets.getInfo&api_key=7ccedd2c89ca10303394b8085541d9de&photoset_id=72157630469695108
You should use SimpleXMLElement directly, then xpath to find your node.
$album_info = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rsp stat="ok">
<photoset id="72157630469695108" owner="15823425@N00" primary="5110549866" secret="fd716fb5ee" server="1136" farm="2" photos="101" count_views="67" count_comments="0" count_photos="101" count_videos="0" can_comment="1" date_create="1341701808" date_update="1345054078">
<title>Montana</title>
<description />
</photoset>
</rsp>'); // this is what the response is stored in
$result = $album_info->xpath('//title');
foreach ($result as $title)
{
echo $title . "\n";
}