rendered paste body if (!$user) { $user = "andy"; } function fetch_xml($xml){ if (is_file($xml)) { $xml_data = file_get_contents($xml); } else { $xml_data = $xml; } $parser = xml_parser_create(); @xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $xml_data, $assoc_arr, $idx_arr); @xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0); @xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); $root_tag = $assoc_arr[0]['tag']; $base_tag = strtolower($assoc_arr[1]['tag']); $i = 0; foreach ($assoc_arr as $key => $element) { if ($element['tag'] != $root_tag) { if (!preg_match('/^\s+$/', $element['value'])) { $tag = strtolower($element['tag']); $items[$i][$tag] = $element['value']; if ($tag == $base_tag) { $i++; } } elseif (isset($element['attributes'])) { $items[$i]['id'] = $element['attributes']['ID']; } } } return $items; } $site = "http://phoenix.brightdev.com/~andy/irpg/xml.php?player=" . $user; $arr = fetch_xml($site); echo $arr; echo $arr['username']; echo $arr['player']['username'];