Help! get node value via php simplexml ! - php

Question

I just want to get the value from xml node.So I following the code from php document:
SimpleXMLElement::xpath() .But it didn't.And I thought the Xpath is much more inconvenience ，is there a much better way to get the node I want??!
my php code:
<?php
/**
* #author kevien
* #copyright 2010
*/
$arr = array ();
$xml = simplexml_load_file("users.xml");
$result = $xml->xpath('/users/user[#id="126"]/watchHistory/whMonthRecords[#month="2010-09"]/whDateList/date');
while(list( , $node) = each($result)) {
array_push($arr, $node);
}
print_r($arr);
?>
it returns:
Array ( [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => 02 ) [1] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => 03 ) [2] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => 06 ) [3] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => 10 ) [4] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => 21 ) )
my part of users.xml :
<users>
<user id="126">
<name>老黄牛三</name>
<watchHistory>
<whMonthRecords month="2010-09">
<whDateList month="2010-09">
<date>02</date>
<date>03</date>
<date>06</date>
<date>10</date>
<date>21</date>
</whDateList>
</<whMonthRecords>
</<watchHistory>>
</user>
</users>
Thank you very much!!

Answer 1

Replace your whole loop with:
foreach ($result as $node) {
$arr[] = (string)$node;
}
or even:
$result = array_map('strval', $result);