Access SimpleXMLElement Object Attributes

PHP simplexml_load_string is a simple way to extract xml data into an object. If you have the following result from calling

$obj = simplexml_load_string($xml);

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [@attributes] => Array
        (
            [status] => success
        )

    [auth] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [token] => dxoYGmwncmntH07jJGro5h0rxNfE2Ni6
            [seq] => 33
        )

)

you can access status by

$obj->attributes()->status