Access xml object

Question

I'm using YouTube API. I got following result from API :

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [@attributes] => Array
        (
            [rel] => alternate
            [href] => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blabla
        )

)

I'm confuse with this object. I want to access @attributes. How can i do it?

var_dump($xml->{'@attributes'}); $xml is your variable where u save xml — devpro
– devpro, Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 7:55
@Mr.Engineer: and what about this $xml->{'@attributes'}->href ? — devpro
– devpro, Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 8:01
It should be something like this $xml->attributes['href'] because attributes is an array — Tommy
– Tommy, Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 8:02

VolkerK · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-28 08:17:50Z

2

The @attributes part of the print_r output are just the element's attributes which can be accessed via $obj['attrname'].

<?php
$obj = new SimpleXMLElement('<foo rel="alternate" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blabla" />');
print_r($obj); // to verify that the sample data fits your actual data

echo $obj['rel'], ' | ', $obj['href'];

prints

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [@attributes] => Array
        (
            [rel] => alternate
            [href] => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blabla
        )

)
alternate | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blabla

see also Example #5 Using attributes in the SimpleXML documentation.

answered Jan 28, 2016 at 8:17

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