note 91057 added to ref.simplexml

Just wanted to add a post as to how you can extract the value from a SimpleXMLElement. Its not as straightforward as you think. Because its a complex object you can't just access the element directly. Here is a sample of data that represents a var_dump of a SimpleXmlElement array(1) { [0]=> object(SimpleXMLElement)#13 (2) { ["@attributes"]=> array(1) { ["name"]=> string(5) "title" } [0]=> string(19) "PHP Tech Book" } } If you want to extract the title of the book you have to cast the specified element to a string like so. $newTitle = (string) $title[0]; The $title variable is the SimpleXMLElement that you have extracted from the xml document using simplexml_load_string for instance. To initially access the title element from the xml document you can do like so, using xpath. $title = $doc->xpath('str[@name="title"]'); Hope this helps someone out there. ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 70.99.150.250 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/91057 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91057/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91057/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91057/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91057/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91057/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91057/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91057 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/91057 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php