PHP XML why can't I read the first attribute with SimpleXML?

Question

PHP XML why can't I read the first attribute with SimpleXML?

The XML file I want to read looks like this:

<issues aaa="444" exportTime="Tue Jul 28 23:54:39 CEST 2015">
  <issue>
   <name>Testing</name>

I am using this code:

$simple = file_get_contents('/url/test3.xml');
$test = new SimpleXMLElement($simple);

I can read the name of the problem name:

echo $test->issue[1]->name;

How can I read the ExportTime values?

echo $test->issues[exportTime]

doing nothing.

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Tass mark Jul 29. 15 at 12:39

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Hassaan · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-29T12:51:55+0000

Try

<?php

$str = <<<XML
<issues aaa="444" exportTime="Tue Jul 28 23:54:39 CEST 2015">
  <issue>
   <name>Testing</name>
  </issue>
</issues>
XML;

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($str);
var_dump($xml['exportTime']);

?>

OUTPUT

object(SimpleXMLElement)[2]
  public 0 => string 'Tue Jul 28 23:54:39 CEST 2015' (length=29)

PHP XML why can't I read the first attribute with SimpleXML?

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