How do I access XML attributes in PHP with simplexml?

Question

Hello, I have this piece of XML:

<foo id="whatever" default="whatever"> FOO </foo>

How can I access attributes like id or default?

If I print_r($xml->foo) I see them, but they are prepended with @

Arnaud Le Blanc · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-07 21:25:56Z

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Use the array syntax for attributes and object syntax for child nodes:

$xml->foo['id'] // get `id` attribute on `foo` node

See also the attributes() method.

answered Sep 7, 2011 at 21:25

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2 Comments

but $node['id] gives me a object containing a array with that value, not the value :| Isn't there a quicker way to do this?

you can cheat and cast it to a string with (string)$node['id']