(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
SimpleXMLElement::attributes — Identifies an element's attributes
$namespaceOrPrefix
= null
, bool $isPrefix
= false
): ?SimpleXMLElementThis function provides the attributes and values defined within an xml tag.
Note: SimpleXML has made a rule of adding iterative properties to most methods. They cannot be viewed using var_dump() or anything else which can examine objects.
namespaceOrPrefix
An optional namespace for the retrieved attributes
isPrefix
Default to false
Returns a SimpleXMLElement object that can be iterated over to loop through the attributes on the tag.
Returns null
if called on a SimpleXMLElement
object that already represents an attribute and not a tag.
Example #1 Interpret an XML string
<?php$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";}?>
The above example will output:
name="one" game="lonely"