Date: 04/29/07 (PHP Development)    Keywords: xml, web

I am connecting to Amazon's S3 web service. I've created 2 buckets, and am now writing a function to get back the list of buckets from S3, and am having problems parsing the XML with simple XML.

I've got down to the bucket Node in a foreach loop as $bucketObj in the XML this Node had "Name" and "CreationDate" as XML nodes.

$bucketObj->Name;
$bucketObj->CreationDate;

The problem is when I call them instead of getting a "string" variable, I have a "SimpleXMLElement" If I var dump Name it looks like

    object(SimpleXMLElement)#17 (1) {
      [0]=>
      string(13) "JamesTest1234"
    }

    
        amazon key data
        amazon
    
    
        
            JamesTest1234
            2007-04-29T01:08:47.000Z
        
        
            JamesTest12345
            2007-04-29T01:10:47.000Z
        
    

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php_dev/76895.html