PHP SimpleXML get value from Object

Question

have a question regarding obtaining a value from a simpleXML Object. So firstly, I do this

$data = $xml->children('SOAP-ENV', true)->Body->children()->ExecuteQueryResponse->pdomOutput->recipient->attributes()->email;
var_dump($data);

And that returns the following

object(SimpleXMLElement)#8 (1) {
  [0]=>
  string(26) "[email protected]"
}

I need just the email address from this. So I then proceed to do this

$this->response = (string)$data[0];
var_dump($this->response);

Now I would expect the above to return just the email address, but instead, it returns everything, including the type e.g.

string(26) "[email protected]"

I can easily get the email address from this using something like preg_match, but surely this is not the way to go? Is it not possible to get the value without the type?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you just want to have the string, SimpleXML has the __toString() function for SimpleXMLElements. So with your code this would be:

$data = $xml->children('SOAP-ENV', true)->Body->children()->ExecuteQueryResponse->pdomOutput->recipient->attributes()->email;
$this->response = $data[0]->__toString();