note 96281 added to simplexmlelement.children

Most examples on this page do not take namespaces into account, rendering them useless in many cases. Here is a function to convert xml to array. You have to feed it the list of namespaces to use. Watch the example at the bottom. <?php function xml2phpArray($xml, $namespaces, $arr) { $iter = 0; foreach ($namespaces as $namespace => $namespaceUrl) { foreach ($xml->children($namespaceUrl) as $b) { $a = $b->getName(); if ($b->children($namespaceUrl)) { $arr[$a][$iter] = array(); $arr[$a][$iter] = xml2phpArray($b, $namespaces, $arr[$a][$iter]); } else { $arr[$a] = trim($b[0]); } $iter++; } } return $arr; } $xml = simplexml_load_file('http://urltosomexmlfile.xml'); $namespaces = array_merge(array('' => ''), $xml->getDocNamespaces(true)); $myArray = array(); $myArray = xml2phpArray($xml, $namespaces, $myArray); ?> ---- Server IP: 61.195.146.164 Probable Submitter: 61.214.154.89 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.children.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/96281 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96281/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96281/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96281/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96281/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96281/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96281/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96281 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/96281 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php