Question

I’m looping through a xml file, but I want to use an attribute name which has the “-” in it.

    foreach( $xml as $person)
    {
        echo 'Name: '.$person->Name.'<br />';
        echo 'Home address: '.$person->home-address.'<br />';
        echo 'Away address: '.$person->away-address.'<br />';
    } 

The “-” symbol breaks the script, how do I make this work? I don’t want to rename the attribute.

Answer 1

Use curly brackets around the variable name:

$person->{'away-address'}