David Nash » xml http://davidnash.com.au Freelance PHP developer - builder of high-quality dynamic websites Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:56:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Using PHP variables that contain hyphens http://davidnash.com.au/2009/11/using-php-variables-that-contain-hyphens/ http://davidnash.com.au/2009/11/using-php-variables-that-contain-hyphens/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:08:54 +0000 David http://davidnash.com.au/?p=213 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!

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