How to convert simplexmlelement object to array in php?
I came across this function of converting a SimpleXML Object to an array here: Show
So my adoption for an XML strings is like:
It works pretty well, but it seems a bit hacky? Is there a more efficient/robust way of doing this? I know that the SimpleXML Object is close enough to an array because it makes use of the ArrayAccess interface in PHP but it still doesn't work great to use as an array with multi-dimensional arrays i.e. looping. Thanks all for any help In this post, you'll learn how to parse XML into an array in PHP. SimpleXML is a PHP extension that makes this possible. In your day-to-day PHP development, sometimes you'll need to deal with XML content. Whether it’s exporting data as XML documents or processing incoming XML documents in your application, it’s always handy to have a
library that can perform these operations smoothly. When it comes to dealing with XML in PHP, there are different methods to choose from. In fact, there are different extensions available in PHP that allow you to read and parse XML documents. PHP’s XML parser is based on James Clark’s expat library, which is a stream-oriented XML library written in C. This XML parser library allows you to parse XML documents, but it’s not able to validate them. It’s event-based and stream-oriented, and
thus it’s really useful when you’re dealing with very large XML files—but a little more complicated than it needs to be for small files. The other option is the SimpleXML extension, which is one of the most popular extensions used by the PHP community to process XML documents. The SimpleXML extension allows you to parse XML documents very easily, just as if you were reading a file in PHP. In this article, we’re going to use the SimpleXML extension to demonstrate how you could convert XML content into an array. If you want to follow along with the example in this article, make sure that you’ve installed the SimpleXML extension in your PHP installation. The SimpleXML PHP ExtensionThe SimpleXML PHP extension provides a complete toolset which you can use to read, write and parse XML documents in your PHP applications. It’s important to note that the SimpleXML extension requires PHP 5 at a minimum. Also, it requires the libxml PHP extension. The
SimpleXML extension is enabled by default, but if you want to check if it's enabled in your PHP installation, you can check it quickly by using the As you can see, you should see the SimpleXML section in the output of the The SimpleXML extension provides different functions that you could use to read and parse XML content. Loading an XML String or File With SimpleXMLFor example,
if you want to parse the XML file, you can use the You could also use the In this article, we’re going to use the How to Convert XML to an Array With PHPIn this section, we’ll see how you can convert XML content into an array. First of all, let’s quickly go through the steps that you need to follow to convert XML content into an array with the help of the SimpleXML extension.
For demonstration purposes, let’s assume that we have an XML file as shown in the following snippet. We’ll call it employees.xml. It contains the basic details of all employees. Our aim is to convert it into an array that you could use for further processing.
As you can see, the employees.xml file contains the names and emails of employees.
It’s important to note that the Next, create the simplexml.php file with the following contents. message; } exit; } $objJsonDocument = json_encode($objXmlDocument); $arrOutput = json_decode($objJsonDocument, TRUE); echo ""; print_r($arrOutput); ?> |