How to load a simplexmlobject file into a variable

I am going crazy here...

I already have a SimpleXMLElement Object so it is not an XML file... I got it stored in a file object.txt

Now i want to put this object into a variable, but i can't get it to work...?

the SimpleXMLElement Object looks like this:

SimpleXMLElement Object ( [PubmedArticle] => Array ( [0] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [MedlineCitation] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [@attributes] => Array ( [Owner] => NLM [Status] => In-Process )

                 开发者_高级运维       [PMID] => 20538400
                        [DateCreated] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                            (
                                [Year] => 2010
                                [Month] => 07
                                [Day] => 08
                            )

                        [Article] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                            (
                                [@attributes] => Array
                                    (
                                        [PubModel] => Print-Electronic
                                    )

.....etc etc....

how do i put this into a variable??

i tried this: $simplexml = file_get_contents('object.xml');

$simplexml should be an array

Loading simplexml from file: simplexml_load_file: $a = simplexml_load_file('object.xml'); If you need something else, please explain.

If your 'object.xml' file contains the above example and not actual XML, it looks a lot like you are using the results of a vardump, and you possibly wish to load that into a (or several) SimpleXMLElementObject(s)...

So, really, you have a string inside of a text file, and you want to parse out the contents. I found this: converting text file into xml using php? and thought it would be a good starting point.