Parsing PHP SimpleXMLElement - php

Question

I am using php to consume a web service (in coldfusion) to validate against the active directory. My code is below.
<?php
$racf = $_SERVER['AUTH_USER'];
//echo $racf;
//echo $myracf = trim($racf, "FEDERATED\.");
//get authenticated user
$arrUser = explode("\\", $_SERVER["LOGON_USER"]);
$racf = $arrUser[1];
echo $racf.'<br ><br >';
$logins = "http://acoldfusionwebservice/login.cfc?method=loginad&racf=$racf";
if( ! $xml = simplexml_load_file($logins) )
{
echo 'unable to load XML file';
}
else
{
//echo 'XML file loaded successfully <br />';
print_r ($xml);
}
?>
And this produces the following.
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[#attributes] => Array
(
[version] => 1.0
)
[header] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
)
[data] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[recordset] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[#attributes] => Array
(
[rowCount] => 1
[fieldNames] => cn,mail,givenName,sn
)
[field] => Array
(
[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[#attributes] => Array
(
[name] => cn
)
[string] => B000000
)
[1] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[#attributes] => Array
(
[name] => mail
)
[string] => john.doe#company.com
)
[2] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[#attributes] => Array
(
[name] => givenName
)
[string] => John
)
[3] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[#attributes] => Array
(
[name] => sn
)
[string] => Doe
)
)
)
)
)
Can someone help me to parse this information so that I can assign variables and use them. Thanks.

Answer 1

Try
$xml->data->recordset->field[0]->string
I think that field[0] is an Object again