Accessing @attribute from SimpleXML

$xml = <<<XML
<root>
<elem attrib="value" />
</root>
XML;

$sxml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
$attrs = $sxml->elem->attributes();
echo $attrs["attrib"]; //or just $sxml->elem["attrib"]

Use SimpleXMLElement::attributes.

Truth is, the SimpleXMLElement get_properties handler lies big time. There's no property named "@attributes", so you can't do $sxml->elem->{"@attributes"}["attrib"].

Try this

$xml->attributes()->Token

You can get the attributes of an XML element by calling the attributes() function on an XML node. You can then var_dump the return value of the function.

More info at php.net http://php.net/simplexmlelement.attributes

Example code from that page:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
foreach($xml->foo[0]->attributes() as $a => $b) {
    echo $a,'="',$b,"\"\n";
}

I used before so many times for getting @attributes like below and it was a little bit longer.

$att = $xml->attributes();
echo $att['field'];

It should be more easy and you can get attributes following format only at once:

Standard Way - Array-Access Attributes (AAA)

$xml['field'];

Other alternatives are:

Right & Quick Format

$xml->attributes()->{'field'};

Wrong Formats

$xml->attributes()->field;
$xml->{"@attributes"}->field;
$xml->attributes('field');
$xml->attributes()['field'];
$xml->attributes->['field'];