note 52512 added to ref.simplexml

Another method to parse an XML Document into a PHP array with SIMPLEXML inspired from Daniel FAIVRE ! function xml2php($xml) { $fils = 0; $tab = false; $array = array(); foreach($xml->children() as $key => $value) { $child = xml2php($value); //To deal with the attributes foreach($node->attributes() as $ak=>$av) { $child[$ak] = (string)$av; } //Let see if the new child is not in the array if($tab==false && in_array($key,array_keys($array))) { //If this element is already in the array we will create an indexed array $tmp = $array[$key]; $array[$key] = NULL; $array[$key][] = $tmp; $array[$key][] = $child; $tab = true; } elseif($tab == true) { //Add an element in an existing array $array[$key][] = $child; } else { //Add a simple element $array[$key] = $child; } $fils++; } if($fils==0) { return (string)$xml; } return $array; } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+52512 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52512&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52512&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52512&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52512&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52512&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+52512&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php