How to access element attributes with SimpleXml? [

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How can i, in php access the attributes values:

[photos] => SimpleXMLElement Object
    (
        [@attributes] => Array
            (
                [page] => 1
                [pages] => 1
                [perpage] => 24
                [total] => 18
            )

I have tried the following:

$photos->@attributes['total'] ;
$photos->{'@attributes'}['total'] ;

and many variations of this

Answer 1

Just

echo $photos['total'];

See Example #5 Using attributes