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I am trying to use an IF statement in PHP to set a variable based on the value of an object returned by an outbound message being processed with simplexml_load_string().

It seems that comparing the resulting object to string in PHP is not working as I expected it would.

The relevant code is:

<?php
…
ob_start();
$capturedData = fopen('php://input', 'rb');
$content = fread($capturedData,5000);
$rcXML = simplexml_load_string($content);
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$priority = $rcXML->children('http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/')->Body->children('http://soap.sforce.com/2005/09/outbound')->notifications->Notification->sObject->children('urn:sobject.enterprise.soap.sforce.com')->Priority.PHP_EOL;
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ob_end_clean();
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if ($priority == "Urgent") {
   $color = "red";
} 
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?>

I have tried several variations of print_r() and (string) against $priority, but am still not getting the expected results (change $color to "red").

The googles tells me that I need to use asXML() since simplexml_load_string() does not return a standard PHP object, but I am having no luck in getting that to work either.

$priority->asXML() returns: PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function asXML() on string

And I cannot seem to figure out how to properly use that either I guess.

Admittedly, my coding skills are not that polished!

Has anyone done something like this or know how I might be able to get this to work?

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ok - I was going down the wrong path on this....

Some additional debug and help from a coworker and the problem was this:

$priority was being saved with a newline at the end.

Simply add trim() to the if condition and wha-la!

if (trim($priority) == "High") {
   $color = "yellow";
} elseif (trim($priority) == "Urgent") {
   $color = "red";
} else {
   $color = "green";
}
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