SimpleXMLElement to PHP Array

Question

Variable $d comes from file_get_contents function to a url.

$answer = @new SimpleXMLElement($d);

Below is output of the print_r($answer):

SimpleXMLElement Object ( [Amount] => 2698 [Status] => OK [State] => FL [Country] => USA )

How can I retrieve value of each element and add to an array? can't figure it out.

Answer 1

The $answer can already work as an array. You can do this if you want put it in a real array,

  $array = array();
  foreach($answer as $k => $v) {
     $array[$k] = $v;
  }

Answer 2

In this simple case type casting will also work:

$my_array = (array)$answer