xml response comes, how to parse (read) it?

Question

PHP

I receive an xml file:

<horo>
<date yesterday="21.09.2018" today="22.09.2018" tomorrow="23.09.2018" tomorrow02="24.09.2018"/>

and I need to get today's date: 09/22/2018 Tell me how to do this.

Answer 1

$answer=<<<XML
<horo>
    <date yesterday="21.09.2018" today="22.09.2018" tomorrow="23.09.2018" tomorrow02="24.09.2018"/>
</horo>
XML;

$xml=simplexml_load_string($answer);
print_r($xml->date[today]);

Answer 2

simplexml get attribute value choose any