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<h1 class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::getName</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.1.3)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::getName</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets the name of the XML element</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>SimpleXMLElement::getName</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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Gets the name of the XML element.
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The <em>getName</em> method returns as a <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span> the
name of the XML tag referenced by the SimpleXMLElement object.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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Listed examples may include <em>example.php</em>,
which refers to the XML string found in the first example
of the <a href="simplexml.examples-basic.html" class="link">basic usage</a> guide.
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<p><strong>Example #1 Get XML element names</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">include </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'example.php'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SimpleXMLElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xmlstr</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getName</span><span style="color: #007700">() . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br />foreach (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">children</span><span style="color: #007700">() as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$child</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br />{<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$child</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getName</span><span style="color: #007700">() . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<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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movies
movie
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