#27413 [Bgs->Fbk]: SimpleXML text comparison

ID: 27413 Updated by: helly@php.net Reported By: rbro at hotmail dot com -Status: Bogus +Status: Feedback Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-02-26 (dev) New Comment: Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-27 13:51:55] rbro at hotmail dot com Thanks for your reply, but if that's the intended behavior (that echo'ing the attribute prints it out as a string, but trying to compare it doesn't work without a cast to a string), then the documentation then needs to be updated. The 'Using attributes' example on http://docs.php.net/en/ref.simplexml.html says that what I'm trying to do should work. That example then is invalid too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-27 13:34:25] helly@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php As Derick said, the explicit conversion is necessary because php tries to convert the second argument to the first argument\'s type which is an object. Generally it could work when you switch the order of arguments but the explicit conversion makes it visible what you do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-27 09:04:12] derick@php.net If you cast to a string, it works: if ((string) $sxe['a'] == '123') I do think that should be necessary though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-27 09:00:12] rbro at hotmail dot com Yes, doing 'var_dump($sxe['a']);' gives: object(simplexml_element)#2 (1) { [0]=> string(3) "123" } But then changing my if line to: if ($sxe['a'][0] == '123') doesn't work either. How does one then compare an attribute to another value? The documentation at http://docs.php.net/en/ref.simplexml.html states that my original if statement should work (the example under 'Using attributes'). That example doesn't work locally either because of the same issue on the switch statement used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-27 02:16:45] sniper@php.net Try doing a 'var_dump($sxe['a']);'...comparing string to an object can't really be true in any case? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/27413 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=27413&edit=1