note 117453 added to function.simplexml-load-string

Here is my update to Bob's simple SimpleXML wrapper function. I noticed his version would turn an empty SimpleXMLElement into an empty array. <?php /** * http://php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-string.php#91564 * * bool/array unserialize_xml ( string $input [ , callback $callback ] ) * Unserializes an XML string, returning a multi-dimensional associative array, optionally runs a callback on all non-array data * Returns false on all failure * Notes: * Root XML tags are stripped * Due to its recursive nature, unserialize_xml() will also support SimpleXMLElement objects and arrays as input * Uses simplexml_load_string() for XML parsing, see SimpleXML documentation for more info * * @param $input * @param null $callback * @param bool $recurse * @return array|mixed * */ function unserialize_xml($input, $callback = null, $recurse = false) { // Get input, loading an xml string with simplexml if its the top level of recursion $data = ((!$recurse) && is_string($input))? simplexml_load_string($input): $input; // Convert SimpleXMLElements to array if ($data instanceof SimpleXMLElement){ if(!empty($data)){ $data = (array) $data; } else { $data = ''; } } // Recurse into arrays if (is_array($data)) foreach ($data as &$item) $item = unserialize_xml($item, $callback, true); // Run callback and return return (!is_array($data) && is_callable($callback))? call_user_func($callback, $data): $data; } ?> ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 71.87.10.114 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-string.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/117453 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/117453/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/117453/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/117453/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/117453/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/117453/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/117453/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/117453 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/117453 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php