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Description

Get the an attribute of the element

Syntax

attributes($attribute=null)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$attribute	null	$attribute The name of the attribute

Returns

mixed If an attribute is given will return the attribute if it exist. If no attribute is given will return the complete attributes array

Defined in

libraries/joomla/utilities/simplexml.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.simplexml' );

Source Body

function attributes($attribute = null)
{
        if (!isset($attribute)) {
                return $this->_attributes;
        }

        return isset($this->_attributes[$attribute]) ? $this->_attributes[$attribute] : null;
}