On Jan 7, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Tapicer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mari Masuda <mari.masuda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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>
>
> $id = (string)$current_object['id'];
Thank you. I also found I could do it with
$current_object->attributes()->id
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