note 44271 modified in ref.simplexml by aidan

the simplexml_to_array function below has a bug, if there are 2 or more fields, it get's bit out of control, here is the right one: <? function simplexml_to_array($xml) { $ar = array(); foreach($xml->children() as $k => $v) { // recurse the child $child = simplexml_to_array($v); // if it's not an array, then it was empty, thus a value/string if( count($child) == 0 ) { $child = (string)$v; } // add the childs attributes as if they where children foreach( $v->attributes() as $ak => $av ) { // if the child is not an array, transform it into one if( !is_array( $child ) ) { $child = array( "value" => $child ); } $child[$ak] = (string)$av; } // if the $k is already in our children list, we need to transform // it into an array, else we add it as a value if (!in_array($k,array_keys($ar))) { $ar[$k] = $child; } elseif (@in_array(0,@array_keys($ar[$k]))) { $ar[$k][] = $child; } else { $ar[$k] = array($ar[$k]); $ar[$k][] = $child; } } return $ar; } ?> --was-- the simplexml_to_array function below has a bug, if there are 2 or more fields, it get's bit out of control, here is the right one: <? function simplexml_to_array($xml) { $ar = array(); foreach($xml->children() as $k => $v) { // recurse the child $child = simplexml_to_array($v); // if it's not an array, then it was empty, thus a value/string if( count($child) == 0 ) { $child = (string)$v; } // add the childs attributes as if they where children foreach( $v->attributes() as $ak => $av ) { // if the child is not an array, transform it into one if( !is_array( $child ) ) { $child = array( "value" => $child ); } $child[$ak] = (string)$av; } // if the $k is already in our children list, we need to transform // it into an array, else we add it as a value if (!in_array($k,array_keys($ar))) { $ar[$k] = $child; } elseif (is_array($ar[$k][0])) { $ar[$k][] = $child; } else { $ar[$k] = array($ar[$k]); $ar[$k][] = $child; } } return $ar; } ?> http://php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php