Re: To get an associative array from an XML-file?

On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:19:53 +0100 Fredrik Johansson <Fredrik@phpportalen.net> wrote: > I want to transform: > > <person> > <firstname>Fredrik</firstname> > <lastname>Johansson</lastname> > <person> > > To: > > $foobar['person']['firstname'] = 'Fredrik', > $foobar['person']['lastname'] = 'Johansson' > > And I can't se why it's OT, if none of the PEAR-classes can do this it > has to be implemented in one ;) Well, as this is not that very uncommon, of course there are PEAR classes you can use, for example XML_Tree or XML_Parser. Although slower and more memory-intensive, I prefer using XML_Tree because it´s easier to use. I have written a small example script. Maybe this will help you getting started: <?php /* This one parses an XML config file like this: <config> <user>Testuser</user> <password enctype='plain'>Testpwd</password> </config> ...into an associative array like this: array ( "user" => 'Testuser', "password" => 'Testpwd', "pwdEncType" => 'plain' ) */ function readConfigFileXML($configFile) { $conf = array(); // Check if file exists if (is_file($configFile)) { // Include PEAR::XML_Tree class definition require_once('XML/Tree.php'); // Get tree object from config file $tree = new XML_Tree($configFile); // Get root node object from tree $t = &$tree->getTreeFromFile(); // Iterate through all nodes below the root node foreach ($t->children as $node) { // Check the node name and set the corresponding array elements switch($node->name) { case "user": $conf['user'] = $node->content; break; case "password": $conf['password'] = $node->content; // The node password can have attributes: Check them! foreach($node->attributes as $attName=>$attValue) { if ($attName == 'enctype') { $conf['pwdEncType'] = $attValue; } } break; } } // Clean up unset($t); unset($tree); // Return config array return $conf; } else { // File not found return false; } } // Test the stuff $myFile = "InsertNameOfTestFile"; $conf = array(); $conf = readConfigFileXML($myFile); echo('<pre>'); print_r($conf); echo('</pre>'); ?> Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>