note 41808 deleted from ref.simplexml by aidan
| From: | aidan@php.net | Date: | Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:25:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 41808 deleted from ref.simplexml by aidan | ||
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Note Submitter: Christophe VG
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The following function also takes in account the attributes. It treats them as if they where
children.
<?php
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;
} else {
$ar[$k] = array( $ar[$k] );
$ar[$k][] = $child;
}
}
return $ar;
}
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
print_r( simplexml_to_array( $xml ) );
?>
The resulting array looks like this :
Array
(
[movie] => Array
(
[title] => PHP: Behind the Parser
[characters] => Array
(
...
)
I hope this can help someone. I needed this because you cannot put a simpleXML object into eg. a
session due to serialization issues. This way I can store the information inside the XML document,
eg. in a session, eliminating the need to reparse it time after time while still having a rather
nice interface for accessing the data.