This might be quite usual for some of you but I'm not familiar with XML Data Parsing using PHP as you might be!
Situation
My client's company (e-Commerce) has a tie-up with a Logistics Company which has its own API for tracking shipments/packages. Now my client wants to automate the Tracking for all packages they ship for their orders using API Integration with the credentials provided by the Logistics Company.
We have been provided the link to access the Live API, which responds data in XML format. I have already worked out with XML Responses/Data of the following type -
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<ShipmentData>
<Shipment>
<Origin>New Delhi (110001)</Origin>
<Status>
<Status>Pending</Status>
<StatusLocation>Ahmedabad(Gujarat)</StatusLocation>
<StatusDateTime>2017-06-13T09:53:28.063000</StatusDateTime>
<RecievedBy/>
<Instructions>Reattempt - As per NDR instructions</Instructions>
<StatusType>UD</StatusType>
</Status>
</Shipment>
</ShipmentData>
For my convenience & understanding I have tagged the above Result as named XML Fields, as every row is named individually
But the result which is receive from this new Logistics Company is different as it has attributes like name, type which are a part of every row.
XML Response as below -
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<bd-objects version="1.0">
<object pk="1" model="awb">
<field type="BigIntegerField" name="awb_number">120420921</field>
<field type="CharField" name="orderid">123456</field>
<field type="FloatField" name="actual_weight">0.5</field>
<field type="CharField" name="origin">DELHI - DLU</field>
<field type="CharField" name="destination">BANGALORE - BAN</field>
<field type="CharField" name="current_location_name">DELHI - DEP</field>
<field type="CharField" name="current_location_code">DEP</field>
<field type="CharField" name="customer">ABC TRADING COMPANY</field>
<field type="CharField" name="consignee">John Doe</field>
<field type="CharField" name="pickupdate">13-Jun-2017</field>
<field type="CharField" name="status">Bagging completed</field>
<field type="CharField" name="tracking_status">Connected</field>
<field type="CharField" name="reason_code"/>
<field type="CharField" name="reason_code_description"/>
<field type="CharField" name="reason_code_number">001</field>
<field type="CharField" name="receiver"/>
<field type="CharField" name="expected_date">20-Jun-2017</field>
<field type="CharField" name="last_update_date">18-Jun-2017</field>
<field type="CharField" name="delivery_date"/>
<field type="CharField" name="ref_awb">None</field>
<field type="CharField" name="rts_shipment">0</field>
<field type="CharField" name="system_delivery_update"/>
<field type="CharField" name="rts_system_delivery_status"/>
<field type="CharField" name="rts_reason_code_number"/>
<field type="CharField" name="rts_last_update"/>
<field type="CharField" name="pincode">560001</field>
<field type="CharField" name="city">BANGALORE</field>
<field type="CharField" name="state">Karnataka</field>
<field name="scans">...</field>
</object>
</bd-objects>
Now I want each of the following named fields like awb_number,orderid,origin,consignee to be stored in different variable like $awb_number , $orderid, $origin , $consignee so that I can make use of it for my further processing code which updates the status of the shipment on request from the server.
For the named field XML response I used the following code -
$url= "https://track.bd.com/api/packages/xml/?token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&format=xml&output=xml&waybill="."$awb";
$dh = curl_init();
curl_setopt($dh, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($dh, CURLOPT_URL, $url); //Get the URL Contents
$data = curl_exec ($dh); // Execute Curl Request
$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
foreach ($xml -> Shipment as $row) {
$status_type = $row -> StatusType;
$PickUpDate = $row -> PickUpDate;
$Destination = $row -> Destination;
$PickDate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime($PickUpDate));
$PickedDate = date("d M Y",strtotime($PickUpDate));
$ReferenceNo = $row -> ReferenceNo;
$DispatchCount = $row -> DispatchCount;
$OrderType = $row -> OrderType;
}
foreach ($xml -> Shipment->Status as $row) {
$status = $row -> Status;
$status_type = $row -> StatusType;
$Instructions = $row -> Instructions;
$status_time = $row -> StatusDateTime;
$statustime = date("j M Y",strtotime($status_time));
}
foreach ($xml -> Shipment->Consignee as $row) {
$Name = $row -> Name;
$PinCode = $row -> PinCode;
$Telephone1 = $row -> Telephone1;
$Address1 = $row -> Address1;
$ReverseInTransit = $row -> ReverseInTransit;
$ReturnedDate = $row -> ReturnedDate;
}
curl_close($dh);
The above code worked like a charm as the fields are named but in the second result set I'm unable to figure out as to what code should be used to store result values from XML to PHP Variables.
