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

<Fredrik@phpportalen.net> wrote : > Bertrand Mansion wrote: > >> le 2/01/03 23:19, Fredrik Johansson à Fredrik@phpportalen.net a écrit : >>> 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 ;) >>> >>> >> >> At the moment, there are 2 versions of the Config class. I am currently >> working on the last one but it doesn't parse xml yet, it parses .ini, .conf, >> php arrays and apache configurations. XML is on the list. >> >> The only problem with xml to php array is how you handle attributes. >> For instance, how to translate: >> >> <db type="mysql" user="root" password="" /> >> <firstname>Fredrik</firstname> >> <lastname>Johansson</lastname> >> </db> >> >> Will this be translated into >> >> $foobar['db']['attributes']['type'] = 'mysql'; >> $foobar['db']['attributes']['user'] = 'root'; >> $foobar['db']['attributes']['password'] = ''; >> $foobar['db']['firstname'] = 'Fredrik'; >> $foobar['db']['lastname'] = 'Johansson'; >> >> or >> >> $foobar['db']['type'] = 'mysql'; >> $foobar['db']['user'] = 'root'; >> $foobar['db']['password'] = ''; >> $foobar['db']['firstname'] = 'Fredrik'; >> $foobar['db']['lastname'] = 'Johansson'; >> >> or are there any other solutions ? >> > I would prefer the first of these to exemples. Else, what happens to a > XML-schema like this: > > <db name="databasename"> > <name>Fredrik Johansson</name> > </db> Exact. I will use an 'attributes' array, then. To do that in the Config class, I need to add a $attributes property to each Config_container objects (which can actually be considered as nodes with extra features). This will also be useful for Apache-like configurations where you find sections like: <directory /path/to/directory> </directory> In this case, '/path/to/directory' could be considered like the attribute. I need to change the Apache parser consequently. > If you need some help with the XML-container I can see what I can do. I > have an old parser that parses as the first example shows, it may be > possible to convert that into a PEAR-Config interface. I was thinking about using the XML_Tree parser but if you have something better or faster, you can send it to me, I will see if I can integrate it. > One more question, which is the top prio of DB and XML? An DB-container > would be nice to ;) DB is not my priority but I will do it anyway, just not now. BTW, I am not sure that the Config class is very fast... I haven't done benchmarks nor anything very difficult with it. I suppose it will work better with ZE2 because there are a lot of references (there are references to parent inside child, don't use var_dump with Config !) Its purpose is mainly to create, modify Config files. Maybe I should add a cache feature. For example, an XML config file could be cached to a PHP array... But that's another topic. I will post an example for using the latest Config from CVS to the list. Regards, Bertrand Mansion Mamasam