note 45594 added to function.simplexml-element-attributes

In reply to inge at elektronaut dot no's function: Notice that this function returns an object, and not a string. This is quite hard to notice at first, because if you validate the return against a string, it will return true: print findAttribute($Fox, "foo") == "bar"? "Matches.":"Won't match."; // "Matches." But, if you attempt to use the return for indexing in an array, like: $MyArray[findattribute($Fox, "foo")] = "bar"; You will get an illegal offset type-error. ------ To correct this, we force-cast the return as a string: function findAttribute($object, $attribute) { foreach($object->attributes() as $a => $b) { if ($a == $attribute) { $return = $b; } } if($return) { return (string)$return; } } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-element-attributes.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+45594 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+45594&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+45594&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php