Re: Planning to create Array -> XML extension

Hi, Dmitry. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Dmitry Koterov <dmitry@koterov.ru> wrote: > Hello. > > I am planning to create a PECL extension which converts multi-dimensional > (nested) PHP arrays into an XML document. > E.g., array('a' => array('b' => 'c')) becomes > <a><b>c</b></a>. > > The main goal is to speedup this transformation greatly. > > Please say is there any similar extension (possibly not in PECL itself, but > somewhere) available? > Possibly I am planning to "contrive a bicycle"? The closest thing in "xml-world" is XMLWriter, I guess. So, the answer to your question is "no, there is no extension which does exactly that" On the other hand, if you need cross-platform data-exchange format, which is not necessarily XML, I may suggest YAML as alternative. PHP extension for YAML is here: http://pecl.php.net/package/syck serialization is as simple as: $string = syck_dump($array_or_anything_else); and retrieving: $array_or_anything_else = syck_load($string); -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/