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Apple has a nice iTunes RSS feed generator. I want to use its output to make a simple web page with all the latest album releases etc. I have the following test setup: http://54.88.218.38/test.php. I am running into issues when I try and access the objects/elements (not sure what they are called) that have a “:” in the name. Here is the raw output: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wpa/MRSS/newreleases/sf=143441/limit=50/rss.xml

<itms:artist> and <itms:coverArt height=”100″ width=”100″> are elements I am trying to access. PHP pukes on the “:” no matter how I try and escape the character.

<html>
  <body>
    <?php
    $newsongs = simplexml_load_file('https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wpa/MRSS/newreleases/sf=143441/limit=50/rss.xml');
    echo $newsongs->channel->title; ?> <p> <?
    $album = $newsongs->channel->item;

    foreach($album as $a){
    $i++;
    echo $a->title; ?> <p> <?

    }
    ?>

  </body>
 </html>

Any suggestions?

*** UPDATE ***

Here is the code with Chris’ suggestions:

<?php

  $lrgImage = "200x200-75.jpg";
  $smlImage = "100x100-75.jpg";

  $newsongs = simplexml_load_file('https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wpa/MRSS/newreleases/sf=143441/limit=50/rss.xml');
  echo $newsongs->channel->title; ?> <p> <?
  $album = $newsongs->channel->item;

  foreach($album as $a){
  $i++;
  $aw = $a->children('itms',true)->coverArt[2];
  $artwork = str_replace($smlImage, $lrgImage, $aw);

  echo "<img src=" . $artwork . ">"; ?> <br> <?
  echo "Artist: " . $a->children('itms',true)->artist . " Album: " . $a->children(itms,true)->album; ?> <br> <?
  echo "Relase Date: " . $a->children('itms',true)->releasedate; ?> <p> <?
  }
 ?>

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