note 102819 added to domdocument.createcdatasection

Here's some code that takes an associative array and prints it asXML() but creates CDATA sections for each string <?php class SimpleXMLExtended extends SimpleXMLElement{ public function addCData($string){ $dom = dom_import_simplexml($this); $cdata = $dom->ownerDocument->createCDATASection($string); $dom->appendChild($cdata); } } function assocArrayToXML($root_element_name,$ar){ $xml = new SimpleXMLExtended("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><{$root_element_name}></{$root_element_name}>"); $f = create_function('$f,$c,$a',' foreach($a as $k=>$v) { if(is_array($v)) { if (!is_numeric($k))$ch=$c->addChild($k); else $ch = $c->addChild(substr($c->getName(),0,-1)); $f($f,$ch,$v); } else { if (is_numeric($v)){ $c->addChild($k, $v); }else{$n = $c->addChild($k); $n->addCData($v);} } }'); $f($f,$xml,$ar); return $xml->asXML(); } /* sample */ $result = array("title"=>"CDATA Sample"); $result['items'] = array(); $result['items'][] = array('title'=>'Some string', 'number' => 1); $result['items'][] = array('title'=>'Some string', 'number' => 2); $result['items'][] = array('title'=>'Some string', 'number' => 3); echo assocArrayToXML('result',$result); ?> The is_numeric check could be changed by a more elaborate regular expression to check if the string is actually xml unsafe but this worked for me. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 213.93.196.40 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.createcdatasection.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/102819 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102819/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102819/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102819/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102819/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102819/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102819/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102819 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/102819 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php