SimpleXML Parse Children With Same Name and Attributes

Question

I can't figure out how to parse an xml file like this using simpleXML.

<root>
 <movies>
    <movie cast="some,actors" description="Nice Movie">Pacific Rim</movie>
    <movie cast="other,actors" description="Awesome Movie">Atlantic Rim</movie>
</movies>
</root>

Expected output am looking at is something like

Pacific Rim [cast="some,actors"],[description="Nice Movie"]
Atlantic Rim [cast="other,actors"],[description="Awesome Movie"]

I have tried

$xml=new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string);
foreach($xml->movies as $movie)
{
  echo $movie->cast." ".$movie->description;
}

Thanks.

Answer 1

<?php
$xml_string = '<root>
 <movies>
    <movie cast="some,actors" description="Nice Movie">Pacific Rim</movie>
    <movie cast="other,actors" description="Awesome Movie">Atlantic Rim</movie>
</movies>
</root>';

/* Expected result: */

/* Pacific Rim [cast="some,actors"],[description="Nice Movie"] */
/* Atlantic Rim [cast="other,actors"],[description="Awesome Movie"] */

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_string);
foreach($xml->movies->movie as $movie)
{
    $name = (string) $movie;
    $attributes = $movie->attributes();
    print $name.' '.'[cast="'.$attributes['cast'].
          '"],[description="'.$attributes['description']."\"]\n";
}

In addition, you can access attributes directly with this syntax (without calling attributes()):

print $movie["cast"] . " " . $movie["description"];