Why does SimpleXML change my array to the array's first element when I use it?

Question

Here is my code:

$string = << 

 
  hello
  there<         


        

Answer 1

It's because you have two lol elements. In order to access the second you need to do this:

$xml->testing->lol[1];

this will give you "there"

$xml->testing->lol[0];

Will give you "hello"

The children() method of the SimpleXMLElement will give you an object containing all the children of an element for example:

$xml->testing->children();

will give you an object containing all the children of the "testing" SimpleXMLElement.

If you need to iterate, you can use the following code:

foreach($xml->testing->children() as $ele)
{
    var_dump($ele);
}

There is more information about SimpleXMLElement here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.simplexmlelement.php