Digicrat Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 This isn't a major issue, but it is very annoying.I have an xpath expression such as:[code]$this->{XML}->xpath("/template/main/title");[/code]which I simply want to echo directly to the programs output at this point. Xpath always returns its result as an array, however I know for a fact that there will always be exactly one result for this query. I would like to put:[code]echo ($this->{XML}->xpath("/template/main/title"))[0];[/code]however PHP5 considers this a syntax error. Is this a bug, or just a quirk of PHP syntax? I know I've done shortcuts like that with other programming languages on the results of a function call.Adding an extra variable just for one-time usage is simply annoying and (possibly) inefficient. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Does this help?[code]<?php$xml = simplexml_load_file('myfile.xml');$a = $xml->xpath('template/main');foreach ($a as $item) { echo (string)$item->title,'<br>';}?>[/code] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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