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

what you might want to do is using the Json encode/decode

$jsonArray = Json_decode(Json_encode($xml), true);

With the true argument you can call instead of using -> use [name]

so an example would be:

$xml = file("someXmlFile.xml");
$jsonArray = Json_decode(Json_encode($xml), true);
foreach(jsonArray['title'] as $title){
   Do something with $titles
}

if you have more than 1 element it will typical put in an @attributes if the elements has attributes. This can be countered by using: $title = $title['@attributes']

Hope it could help.