setting an array from simple_xml data - php

Question

I am trying to create an array of titles from an xml feed using this code:
$url = 'https://indiegamestand.com/store/salefeed.php';
$xml = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents($url));
$on_sale = array();
foreach ($xml->channel->item as $game)
{
echo $game->{'title'} . "\n";
$on_sale[] = $game->{'title'};
}
print_r($on_sale);
The echo $game->{'title'} . "\n"; returns the correct title, but when setting the title to the array i get spammed with this:
Array
(
[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
)
)
[1] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
)
)
[2] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
)
)
Am I missing something when setting this array?

Answer 1

Use this:
$on_sale[] = $game->{'title'}->__toString();
or even better (in my opinion):
$on_sale[] = (string) $game->{'title'};
PHP doesn't know that you want the string value when you add the object to the array, so __toString() doesn't get called automatically like it does in the echo call. When you cast the object to string, __toString() is called automatically.
FYI: You don't really need the curly braces either, this works fine for me:
$on_sale[] = (string) $game->title;