Using PHP variables that contain hyphens

Posted on November 25, 2009

This took me a little while to work out. I’m using PHP5′s SimpleXML to parse XML into a PHP object. The XML has entries like <HELLO-THERE>.

But you can’t use $xml->HELLO-THERE because it reads the hyphen as a minus.

Instead, use $xml->{“HELLO-THERE”}

Easy!

1. irfan says:

   October 21, 2010 at 6:15 pm

   Thanks, information was really helpful .

   Reply