Re: cannot access SimpleXML object property

On Jan 7, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Tapicer wrote: > 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']; Thank you. I also found I could do it with $current_object->attributes()->id