Posted by Charlie Davis on 12/23/05 12:47

Sweet. Thanks!

The {'..'} works perfectly. Never knew about that syntax.

-Charlie

Jochem Maas wrote:
> Charlie Davis wrote:
>
>> Hey all, I've run into a snag trying to use some XML output from NOAA.
>
>
> what NOAA when its at home?
>
>>
>> The problem is that some of the fields it sends to me have a hyphen in
>> the name. Simple XML then creates objects with hyphens in their name.
>>
>> So here's the object I am having issues with:
>>
>> object(SimpleXMLElement)#7 (2) {
>> wind-speed => object(SimpleXMLElement)#9 (2) {
>> name => string(10) Wind Speed
>> value => array(37) {
>> 0 => string(1) 4
>> 1 => string(1) 4
>
>
> ...
>
>> 33 => string(3) 328
>> 34 => string(3) 338
>> 35 => string(3) 350
>> 36 => string(3) 350
>
>
> you could have trimmed that down a bit.
>
>> }
>> }
>> }
>>
>> And here's my code issues:
>>
>> $xmlobj->data->parameters->direction access works fine.
>> $xmlobj->data->parameters->direction->value works fine. Gives me the
>> array.
>>
>
> first turn up error reporting to full
>
> error_reporting( E_ALL | E_STRICT );
>
>> $xmlobj->data->parameters->wind-speed returns an int value of 0.
>> $xmlobj->data->parameters->wind-speed->value gives me an error:
>
>
> then try something like (I'm guessing this might work, then again
> the behaviour of simpleXML [especially auto/magic casting] is greek to
> me):
>
> $xmlobj->data->parameters->{'wind-speed'}
> $xmlobj->data->parameters->{'wind-speed'}->value
>
>
>>
>> Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in noaa.php on
>> line 59
>>
>> So, what am I doing wrong? The only thing I can think of is the - in
>> the wind-speed object name.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated!
>>
>> -Charlie
>>

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