PHP Manual: Move to next element

Description

public void SimpleXMLElement::next()

Warning

Prior to PHP 8.0, SimpleXMLElement::next was only declared on the subclass SimpleXMLIterator.

This method moves the SimpleXMLElement to the next element.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

No value is returned.

Examples

Example #1 Move to the next element

<?php
$xmlElement = new SimpleXMLElement('<books><book>PHP Basics</book><book>XML basics</book></books>');
$xmlElement->rewind(); // rewind to the first element
$xmlElement->next();

var_dump($xmlElement->current());
?>

The above example will output:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (1) {
  [0]=>
  string(10) "XML basics"
}