Exactly! So frustrating.

infekt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:06:34 +0000

Exactly! So frustrating. Seems odd that I can pass a key like this:

$xml->gallery[0]->item[1];

...and it will give me that exact object from the [item][1] array of objects, but there is no way to pull that key?

Thanks for the reply pr0gr4mm3r!

Long story short, I found

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:55:03 +0000

Long story short, I found that this works:

$items = array();
foreach($xml->gallery[0]->item as $key=>$item)
{
     $items[] = (string)$item->title;
}

var_dump($items);

But ya, dealing with a nest of objects and arrays are annoying, which is why I particularly find dealing with SimpleXMLElement frustrating at times.

Perfect example, when I take your example and var_dump($xml->gallery[0]); I get:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#8 (2) {
  ["name"]=>
  string(7) "General"
  ["item"]=>
  array(3) {
    [0]=>
    object(SimpleXMLElement)#6 (2) {
      ["title"]=>
      string(15) "A Mother's Love"
      ["img"]=>
      string(18) "a_mothers_love.jpg"
    }
    [1]=>
    object(SimpleXMLElement)#7 (2) {
      ["title"]=>
      string(28) "Duality of the Bull and Bear"
      ["img"]=>
      string(32) "duality_of_the_bull_and_bear.jpg"
    }
    [2]=>
    object(SimpleXMLElement)#9 (2) {
      ["title"]=>
      string(17) "Effort And Desire"
      ["img"]=>
      string(21) "effort_and_desire.jpg"
    }
  }
}

So, one would think that if I var_dump($xml->gallery[0]->item); I would get the item array, but I get this:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#6 (2) {
  ["title"]=>
  string(15) "A Mother's Love"
  ["img"]=>
  string(18) "a_mothers_love.jpg"
}

So based on that, I figured that looping through the object and build the array manually works the best.