php xml get value of node

Question

How can I get "bla" in the below dump of my node Essentially bla is what is contained in my node

<mynode name="myvalueone" display="myvalue2">bla</mynode>


object(SimpleXMLElement)[21]
  public '@attributes' => 
    array
      'name' => string 'myvalueone' (length=65)
      'display' => string 'myvalue2' (length=9)
  string 'bla' (length=3)

Imi Borbas · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-28 01:01:48Z

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You can obtain the value by casting the SimpleXMLElement to a string like this: $value = (string)$element;

edited Mar 28, 2011 at 1:01

answered Mar 28, 2011 at 0:56

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user391986 Over a year ago

ah thank you! I had tried this but when I was doing a var_dump on the result it was giving me an SimpleXML Object but now I tried again and I see can cast that to a string.

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