note 85674 added to book.simplexml

Moving some code from a PHP 5.2.6 / Windows environment to a 5.2.0 / Linux environment, I somehow lost access to a plain text node within a SimpleXML Object. On a var_dump of $xml_node, a [0] element was shown as the string '12'. However, $xml_node[0] was evaluating NULL in 5.2.0. You can see below the code change I made, pulling my data out of the raw XML with a regular expression. Hope this is useful to someone. //In some versions of PHP it seems we cannot access the [0] element of a SimpleXML Object. Doesn't work in 5.2.0: //$count = $xml_node[0]; //grab the raw XML: $count = ($xml_node->asXML()); //pull out the number between the closing and opening brace of the xml: $count = preg_replace('/.*>(\d*)<.*/', '$1', $count); ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 12.198.162.130 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/85674 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85674/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85674/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85674/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85674/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85674/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85674/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85674 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/85674 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php