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<h1 class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::attributes</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::attributes</span> — <span class="dc-title">Identifies an element's attributes</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><a href="class.simplexmlelement.html" class="type SimpleXMLElement">SimpleXMLElement</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>SimpleXMLElement::attributes</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$ns</code><span class="initializer"> = <strong><code>NULL</code></strong></span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$is_prefix</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
]] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
This function provides the attributes and values defined within an xml tag.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <span class="simpara">SimpleXML has made a rule of adding
iterative properties to most methods. They cannot be viewed using <span class="function"><a href="function.var-dump.html" class="function">var_dump()</a></span>
or anything else which can examine objects.</span></p></blockquote>
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.attributes-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">ns</code></em></span>
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An optional namespace for the retrieved attributes
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">is_prefix</code></em></span>
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Default to <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.attributes-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns a <a href="class.simplexmlelement.html" class="classname">SimpleXMLElement</a> object that can be
iterated over to loop through the attributes on the tag.
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Returns <strong><code>NULL</code></strong> if called on a <a href="class.simplexmlelement.html" class="classname">SimpleXMLElement</a>
object that already represents an attribute and not a tag.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.attributes-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 Interpret an XML string</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$string </span><span style="color: #007700">= <<<XML<br /></span><span style="color: #DD0000"><a><br /> <foo name="one" game="lonely">1</foo><br /></a><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">XML;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xml </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">simplexml_load_string</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$string</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />foreach(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xml</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">foo</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">]-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">attributes</span><span style="color: #007700">() as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$a </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$b</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$a</span><span style="color: #007700">,</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'="'</span><span style="color: #007700">,</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$b</span><span style="color: #007700">,</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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name="one"
game="lonely"
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.attributes-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"><a href="simplexml.examples-basic.html" class="xref">Basic SimpleXML usage</a></li>
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