Re: cannot access SimpleXML object property

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mari Masuda <mari.masuda@stanford.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with an XML document and have a SimpleXML object whose var_dump looks like this: > > --- > object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (10) { >  ["@attributes"]=> >  array(1) { >    ["id"]=> >    string(7) "3854857" >  } >  ["type"]=> >  string(7) "Article" >  ["createDate"]=> >  string(25) "2006-09-06T16:42:20-07:00" >  ["editDate"]=> >  string(25) "2007-07-16T09:15:53-07:00" >  ["creator"]=> >  string(19) "Michael Gottfredson" >  ["status"]=> >  string(5) "ready" >  ["field"]=> >  ...snip a bunch of stuff... > } > --- > > Assuming the above object is referenced by $current_object, I can access the values of most > stuff with $current_object->creator or whatever.  However, I cannot figure out how to access the > value of id.  I tried the following, none of which worked for me: > > 1.  $current_object->@attributes->id (gives Parse error: syntax error, unexpected > '@', expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or '{' or '$' in > /Applications/apache/htdocs/test.php on line 33) > > 2.  $current_object->'@attributes'->id (gives Parse error: syntax error, > unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or '{' or > '$' in/Applications/apache/htdocs/test.php on line 33) > > 3.  $current_object->{@attributes}->id (no error but is null) > > 4.  $current_object->{'@attributes'}->id (no error but is also null) > > Does anyone know how I can reference the value of id?  Thanks! > > Mari > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > $id = (string)$current_object['id'];