Question

I have the following xml code in my xml:

<features>
<pool type="inground">yes</pool>
<heating type="other"/>
</features>

However, if I do a print_r on my simplexml after parsing the xml, the pool element is set up like a string instead of the heating element which is an object. i.e

[pool] => yes
[heating] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [@attributes] => Array
                (
                    [type] => other
                )

        )

And so the following code to get the type of the pool:

$type = $pool->attributes()->type

fails giving a fatal error -> member method on non object.

What’s the solution here?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you’re looking to access the attributes of the pool tag, you need to descend to it first:

$s = '  <features>
    <pool type="inground">yes</pool>
    <heating type="other"/>
    </features>
';
$pool = simplexml_load_string($s);
var_dump($pool->pool->attributes()->type);

That seems to work; it returns this for me:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (1) {
  [0]=>
  string(8) "inground"
}