https://github.com/baraja-core/xml-to-array

Smart tool to convert your XML to PHP array.
https://github.com/baraja-core/xml-to-array

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Smart tool to convert your XML to PHP array.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/baraja-core/xml-to-array
• Owner: baraja-core
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-01-01T20:11:31.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-12T07:44:04.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T00:13:58.657Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: array, casting, convertor, php, php-array, snippet, xml
• Language: PHP
• Homepage: https://php.baraja.cz
• Size: 24.4 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
XML to PHP array convertor

==========================

Smart tool to convert your XML to PHP array.

This is fork from [gaarf/XML-string-to-PHP-array](https://github.com/gaarf/XML-string-to-PHP-array).

Install and simply use

----------------------

Use Composer:

```shell

composer require baraja-core/xml-to-php-array

```

And then package will be automatically installed to your project and you can simply call:

```php

$resultArray = Convertor::covertToArray($xml);

```

Documentation

-------------

One common need when working in PHP is a way to convert an XML document

into a serializable array. If you ever tried to serialize() and then

unserialize() a SimpleXML or DOMDocument object, you know what I’m

talking about.

Assume the following XML snippet:

```xml

	

		Brian

		Chris

		Meg

	

```

There’s a quick and dirty way to do convert such a document to an array,

using type casting and the JSON functions to ensure there are no exotic

values that would cause problems when unserializing:

```php

$a = json_decode(json_encode((array) Convertor::covertToArray($s)), true);

```

Here is the result for our sample XML, eg if we `print_r($a)`:

```

Array

(

    [show] => Array

        (

            [@attributes] => Array

                (

                    [name] => Family Guy

                )

            [dog] => Brian

            [kid] => Array

                (

                    [0] => Chris

                    [1] => Meg

                )

        )

)

```

Pretty nifty, eh? But maybe we want to embed some HTML tags or something

crazy along those lines. then we need a CDATA node…

```xml

	

		Brian

		Chris

		Meg

		Stewie]]>

	

```

The snippet of XML above would yield the following:

```

Array

(

    [show] => Array

        (

            [@attributes] => Array

                (

                    [name] => Family Guy

                )

            [dog] => Brian

            [kid] => Array

                (

                    [0] => Chris

                    [1] => Meg

                    [2] => Array

                        (

                        )

                )

        )

)

```

That’s not very useful. We got in trouble because the CDATA node, a

SimpleXMLElement, is being cast to an array instead of a string. To

handle this case while still keeping the nice @attributes notation, we

need a slightly more verbose conversion function. This is my version,

hereby released under a do-whatever-but-dont-sue-me license.

The result, for our *Stewie* snippet:

```

Array

(

    [show] => Array

        (

            [@attributes] => Array

                (

                    [name] => Family Guy

                )

            [dog] => Brian

            [kid] => Array

                (

                    [0] => Chris

                    [1] => Meg

                    [2] => Stewie

                )

        )

)

```

Victory is mine! :D