In PHP how do you get the simple text of an XML attribute only XML?

Question

I have an XML that's coming back from an cURL post that's returning:

$output=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mtMessageRsp carrier="102" messageId="769f2e4f-56da-4865-988a-a9199c387a48"/>

I'm returning this as an XML via:

return simplexml_load_string($output);

$result is catching the return and it's coming back as:

$result = { 
  "@attributes" :  { 
    carrier : "102",
    messageId : "8d691cbe-d188-42b1-9041-387666d39c6a"
  }

How can I drill down to get the messageId as plane text? When I use this:

$result['messageId']

I get:

{ 
  "0" : "bf629ae9-c86a-486a-bfb0-704e16448ddf"
}

But I just want:

bf629ae9-c86a-486a-bfb0-704e16448ddf

This is not a duplicate of the indicated post that 'hakre' flagged. — Wil Wells, Apr 01 '15 at 17:50

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

0

Figured it out in another post:

$msgID = (string) $result['messageId'];

You have to cast simpleXML Object to a string. POST: Get value from SimpleXMLElement Object

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

Community

answered Apr 01 '15 at 15:19

Wil Wells

You can also find a nice introduction to Simplexml in the PHP manual here: [Basic SimpleXML usage](https://php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php) – hakre Apr 01 '15 at 16:37

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