Has anyone had any luck pulling items from the armory lately? I have been trying to figure out why I cannot extract item statistics to store. The XML I am getting from the armory looks as follows:

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 SimpleXMLElement object(
   '@attributes' =>  Array(
      'globalSearch' => 1,
      'lang' => 'en_us',
      'requestQuery' => 'i=28608',
      'requestUrl' => '/item-info.xml'
      ),
   'itemInfo' =>  SimpleXMLElement object(
      'item' =>  SimpleXMLElement object(
         '@attributes' =>  Array(
            'icon' => 'inv_boots_plate_04',
            'id' => 28608,
            'level' => 115,
            'name' => 'Ironstriders of Urgency',
            'quality' => 4,
            'type' => 'Plate'
            ),
         'cost' =>  SimpleXMLElement object(
            '@attributes' =>  Array(
               'sellPrice' => 63623
               )
            ),


Most of my code structures attempt to pull this way (pseudo code)

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$icon = $itemInfo->item->attributes->icon;
$name = $itemInfo->item->attributes->name;

etc.

However, it fails to actually extract, probably due to the @ symbol in the XML structure. Does anyone have a workaround for this? I guess I may just not know how to escape that character in an object...

Hm, Doesn't it use array syntax for attributes?

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$itemInfo->item['icon']

PleegWat wrote:Hm, Doesn't it use array syntax for attributes?

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$itemInfo->item['icon']

Well, looking at the data struct, since item is an object, and it has "@attributes" below it, I'd think it should be

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$itemInfo->item->@attributes['icon']

to work that way, but it doesn't like the "@".

Ok, I did some more digging. Basically if I convert the object variables to an array, I can handle them that way:

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$temp = get_object_vars($itemInfo->item);
$this->icon = $temp['@attributes']['icon'];
$this->name = $temp['@attributes']['name'];


etc.

Not the most elegant, but it works.

with the new armory sync being finished item handeling and retreving will be easier ... trust me ... lol

I completely forgot to post here for completeness.

PleegWat noted for me that the XML parser in PHP handles references in the background. So you can actually pull itemInfo->item['icon'] and get a result. The only difficulty there is if there is more than one "icon" field, you'll only get the first result. (For my purposes this is fine, if someone was pulling the "disenchant" segment of an item struct, it would be more difficult.)

Additionally, you can map to abnormally-named fields with the following syntax:

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itemInfo->item->{'@attributes'}

Handy thing to remember.

indeed exspecialy when this is how as uses data now