Question

Using simplexml_load_file(), if I’m parsing out XML and I get the following for image…

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [@attributes] => Array
        (
            [size] => small
        )
    [0] => http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34s/72903330.png
)

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [@attributes] => Array
        (
            [size] => medium
        )
    [0] => http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/72903330.png
) // ... etc

My question is…how do I get to the image URL at array[0]? I know how to access my ‘size’ attribute with the attributes() method. But I can’t seem to echo out the URL. I’ve tried

$img = $xml -> album -> image[0];  <----i see nothing
$img = $xml -> album -> image -> 0;   <-----i get a 500 error

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
-Bob

Answer 1

(string) $xml->album->image;

or

(string) $xml->album->image[0];

Should do the trick.

You could also try

$xml->album->image->asXML();