<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Returns the string content</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="simplexmlelement.savexml.html">SimpleXMLElement::saveXML</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="simplexmlelement.xpath.html">SimpleXMLElement::xpath</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.simplexmlelement.html">SimpleXMLElement</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="simplexmlelement.tostring" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::__toString</h1> <p class="verinfo">(No version information available, might only be in SVN)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::__toString</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the string content</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.tostring-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>SimpleXMLElement::__toString</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam">void</span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Returns text content that is directly in this element. Does not return text content that is inside this element's children. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.tostring-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.tostring-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the string content on success or an empty string on failure. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.tostring-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-5511"> <p><strong>Example #1 Get string content</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$xml </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SimpleXMLElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<a>1 <b>2 </b>3</a>'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xml</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> 1 3 </pre></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.tostring-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.asxml.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">SimpleXMLElement::asXML()</a> - Return a well-formed XML string based on SimpleXML element</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="simplexmlelement.savexml.html">SimpleXMLElement::saveXML</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="simplexmlelement.xpath.html">SimpleXMLElement::xpath</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.simplexmlelement.html">SimpleXMLElement</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>