Accessing @attribute from SimpleXML

Question

I am having a problem accessing the @attribute section of my SimpleXML object. When I var_dump the entire object, I get the correct output, and wh

Answer 1

It helped me to convert the result of simplexml_load_file($file) into a JSON Structure and decode it back:

$xml = simplexml_load_file("$token.xml");
$json = json_encode($xml);
$xml_fixed = json_decode($json);

$try1 = $xml->structure->{"@attributes"}['value'];
print_r($try1);

>> result: SimpleXMLElement Object
(
)

$try2 = $xml_fixed->structure->{"@attributes"}['value'];
print_r($try2);

>> result: stdClass Object
(
    [key] => value
)