Am I just completely missing something with this SimpleXML functions? Something else I noticed that seems broken to me... I can change the "if ($xml->error)" line to "if ($xml->foo)" and I still get the text echo'd to the screen. ?!!?! If I change it to "if ($xml->error->code)" then I don't get the text. Which sort of makes sense, since there is no "$xml->error" object in the var_dump. "if (is_object($xml->error))" also return true and outputs the text. object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (2) { ["code"]=> string(3) "tbd" ["string"]=> string(38) "user not found." } The way that I've hacked around this for now is "if ( (string)$xml->code != '')" Ideas on what I'm doing wrong, or is this function just completely bunk. > -----Original Message----- > Here is a code fragment I use: > > $xml = simplexml_load_string($returnData); > var_dump($xml); > if (is_object($xml)) > { > //first lets make sure we didn't get an <ERROR> > if ($xml->error) > { > echo "An ERROR was encountered\n"; > echo "CODE: ".((string)$xml->error->code)."\n"; > echo "STRING: ".((string)$xml->error->string)."\n"; > exit; > } > > ... > } -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php