SimpleXMLElement::attributes

(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1)

SimpleXMLElement::attributes — Identifies an element's attributes

Descrição

public SimpleXMLElement::attributes ([ string $ns = NULL [, bool $is_prefix = false ]] )

This function provides the attributes and values defined within an xml tag.

Nota: SimpleXML tem uma regra quando do acréscimo de propriedades iterarivas na maioria dos métodos. Eles não podem ser visualizados com nem nada que possa visualizar objetos.

Parâmetros

ns

An optional namespace for the retrieved attributes

is_prefix

Default to FALSE

Valor Retornado

Returns a object that can be iterated over to loop through the attributes on the tag.

Returns NULL if called on a object that already represents an attribute and not a tag.

Exemplos

Exemplo #1 Interpret an XML string

<?php
$string = <<<XML
<a>
 <foo name="one" game="lonely">1</foo>
</a>
XML;

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

O exemplo acima irá imprimir:

name="one"
game="lonely"

Veja Também

User Contributed Notes

Andrei
Reading the attributes of the root element with name space prefixes as in an Atom feed

<feed xmlns="" xmlns:openSearch="" xmlns:gd="" gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck4EQXYzeCp7ImA9WhZWFE4.&quot;">

<?php
$xml =  @simplexml_load_file($feed);
$att_gd = $xml->attributes("gd",1);
$Etag = $att_gd["etag"];
?>
sarlak
<?php
$att = 'attribueName';

// You can access an element's attribute just like this :
$attribute = $element->attributes()->$att;

// This will save the value of the attribute, and not the objet
$attribute = (string)$element->attributes()->$att;

// You also can edit it this way :
$element->attributes()->$att = 'New value of the attribute';
?>
leap
If you want to save the value of an attribute into an array, typecast it to a string.

<?php
// stores an xml-element-object
$dataStore['value'] = $attributes->myValue

// stores the value of the attribute
$dataStore['value'] = (string)$attributes->myValue
?>
alan at performantsystems dot com
So lets say you have database type data in an XML string called $xmlstring with the key or item ID as an XML Attribute and all content data as regular XML Elements, as above. SimpleXML processes the Attributes as an array, so we can play along and push the Attributes into an array. Then we can get the value of any specific Attribute we want by addressing it by name, such as "ID".

Considering this data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
   <item ID="30001">
      <Company>Navarro Corp.</Company>
   </item>
   <item ID="30002">
      <Company>Performant Systems</Company>
   </item>
   <item ID="30003">
      <Company>Digital Showcase</Company>
   </item>
</data>

Example of listing both the ID Attribute and Company Element values:
 
<?php
$xmlObject = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstring);
foreach ($xmlObject->children() as $node) {
        $arr = $node->attributes();   // returns an array
        print ("ID=".$arr["ID"]);     // get the value of this attribute
        print ("  Company=".$node->Company);
        print ("<p><hr>");
}
?>
Xeoncross
It is really simple to access attributes using array form. However, you must convert them to strings or ints if you plan on passing the values to functions.

<?php
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [@attributes] => Array
        (
            [id] => 55555
        )

    [text] => "hello world"
)
?>

Then using a function

<?php
function xml_attribute($object, $attribute)
{
    if(isset($object[$attribute]))
        return (string) $object[$attribute];
}
?>

I can get the "id" like this

<?php
print xml_attribute($xml, 'id'); //prints "55555"
?>
gillllberg at gmail dot com
To get an attribute in the node, use node->attributes()->attributeName
skerr at mojavi dot org
You can also access the node as an array to get attributes:

<?php

$xml = simplexml_load_file('file.xml');

echo 'Attribute: ' . $xml['attribute'];

?>
inge at elektronaut dot no
here's a simple function to get an attribute by name, based on the example

<?php
function findAttribute($object, $attribute) {
  foreach($object->attributes() as $a => $b) {
    if ($a == $attribute) {
      $return = $b;
    }
  }
  if($return) {
    return $return;
  }
}
?>