note 104579 added to ref.simplexml

This is a follow-up based on the same problem k dot antczak was solving - converting a SimpleXMLElement to an associative array. I needed to do the same thing, and came up with a 1-line solution that also works: $array = json_decode(json_encode($xmlObject), true); In addition to being a single line rather than a custom function, it's faster. I benchmarked both approaches with the same SimpleXMLElement (max depth was 3). 50K runs took 2.7s on average using the json hack, while using the xml2array function took 4.8s. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 12.169.97.130 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/104579 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104579/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104579/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104579/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104579/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104579/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104579/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104579 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/104579 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php