XML Reader to array/object iterator with low memory usage (basically a Space–time tradeoff) and an acceptable level of ease of use. Mostly useful for importing sequential data from external API's.
$ composer require "halilim/xml-iterator"use XmlIterator\XmlIterator;
$it = new XmlIterator("http://api.example.com/products.xml", "product");
foreach ($it as $k => $v) {
// Do something with each row ($v), save it to db, echo it, etc. E.g.:
// echo $k . " => " . var_export($v, true) . "\n\n";
}Note: When working with remote files it's advised to copy the file to a temporary local location first. Otherwise if the import takes a long time, "extra content at the end of the document" kind of errors may occur (or at least this was what happened to me).
Example input:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<products>
<product>
<title>Lorem</title>
<brand>ACME</brand>
<images>
<image>http://www.example.com/image1.jpg</image>
<image>http://www.example.com/image2.jpg</image>
</images>
</product>
<product>
<title>Ipsum</title>
<brand>Etc LLC</brand>
<images>
<image>http://www.example.com/image3.jpg</image>
<image>http://www.example.com/image4.jpg</image>
</images>
</product>
</products>Example output:
0 => array (
'title' => 'Lorem',
'brand' => 'ACME',
'images' =>
array (
'image' =>
array (
0 => 'http://www.example.com/image1.jpg',
1 => 'http://www.example.com/image2.jpg',
),
),
)
1 => array (
'title' => 'Ipsum',
'brand' => 'Etc LLC',
'images' =>
array (
'image' =>
array (
0 => 'http://www.example.com/image3.jpg',
1 => 'http://www.example.com/image4.jpg',
),
),
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