Accessing attribute from SimpleXML

Question

I am having a problem accessing the  attribute section of my SimpleXML object   When I var dump the entire object  I get the correct output  and when I var dump the rest of the object  the nested tags   I get the correct output  but when I follow the docs and var dump  xml- gt OFFICE- gt    attributes    I get an empty object  despite the fact that the first var dump clearly shows that there are attributes to output   Anyone know what I am doing wrong here how I can make this work

User · Accepted Answer

You can get the attributes of an XML element by calling the attributes() function on an XML node. You can then var_dump the return value of the function.

More info at php.net http://php.net/simplexmlelement.attributes

Example code from that page:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
foreach($xml->foo[0]->attributes() as $a => $b) {
    echo $a,'="',$b,"\"\n";
}

User · Answer

I used before so many times for getting  attributes like below and it was a little bit longer    att    xml- gt attributes    echo  att  field      It should be more easy and you can get attributes following format only at once   Standard Way - Array-Access Attributes  AAA    xml  field      Other alternatives are   Right  amp  Quick Format   xml- gt attributes  - gt   field      Wrong Formats   xml- gt attributes  - gt field   xml- gt    attributes  - gt field   xml- gt attributes  field     xml- gt attributes    field     xml- gt attributes- gt   field

User · Answer

Try this   xml- gt attributes  - gt Token

User · Answer

xml    lt  lt  lt XML  lt root gt   lt elem attrib  value    gt   lt  root gt  XML    sxml   simplexml load string  xml    attrs    sxml- gt elem- gt attributes    echo  attrs  attrib      or just  sxml- gt elem  attrib     Use SimpleXMLElement  attributes   Truth is  the SimpleXMLElement get properties handler lies big time  There s no property named   attributes   so you can t do  sxml- gt elem- gt    attributes    attrib

User · Answer

You can just do   echo  xml  token

User · Answer

Unfortunately I have a unique build  stuck with Gentoo for the moment  of PHP 5 5  and what I found was that    xml- gt tagName  attribute     was the only solution that worked   I tried all of Bora s methods above  including the  Right  amp  Quick  format  and they all failed   The fact that this is the easiest format is a plus  but didn t enjoy thinking I was insane trying all of the formats others were saying worked   Njoy for what its worth  did I mention unique build

User · Answer

It helped me to convert the result of simplexml load file  file  into a JSON Structure and decode it back    xml   simplexml load file   token xml     json   json encode  xml    xml fixed   json decode  json     try1    xml- gt structure- gt    attributes    value    print r  try1     gt  gt  result  SimpleXMLElement Object       try2    xml fixed- gt structure- gt    attributes    value    print r  try2     gt  gt  result  stdClass Object        key    gt  value

User · Answer

If you re looking for a list of these attributes though  XPath will be your friend  print r  xml- gt xpath   token

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