Question

I’m trying to extract the href attribute of link as a string.

<a href="http://example.com" target="_blank" class="someclass">Read More</a>

I’m using the following to read the extract the attribute:

$link = simplexml_load_string($ad['meta_value']);
$order['logo'] = $logo['href']->asXML();

Instead of getting http://example.com I’m getting href="http://example.com". Beside using str_replace() is there a way to extract the attribute as a string?

Answer 1

Treat @attributes as object and convert to string:

$link = simplexml_load_string($ad['meta_value']);
echo (string) $link->attributes()->href;