PHP get values from SimpleXMLElement array

Question

I have this:

  [1]=>
object(SimpleXMLElement)#6 (1) {
  [\"@attributes\"]=>
  array(14) {
    [\"name\"]=>
    string(5) \"MySQL\"
    [\"acknowledg         


        

Answer 1

While you can do:

echo $child['name'];

to see the value, you should note that $child['name'] is an object, not a string. Echoing it casts it to a string, so it works in that situation. But if you're storing it somewhere, it's better to cast it to a string yourself:

$name = (string) $child['name'];