$xmlString = file_get_contents('books.xml'); $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlString); $json = json_encode($xml); $array = json_decode($json, true);
$xmlString = "In this example, we create an XML string manually and load it into a SimpleXMLElement object using ```simplexml_load_string```. We then follow the same process as in Example 1 to convert the object to a JSON object and then to an associative array. The package library used in these examples is the built-in SimpleXML library in PHP."; $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlString); $json = json_encode($xml); $array = json_decode($json, true); PHP for Dummies John Doe JavaScript for Dummies Jane Smith