/**
* transforms a simplexml to an array
*
* @param string $xml The xml source
* @param array $arr The result array
* @return array $array The resulting array
*/
public static function xml2phpArray($xml, $arr)
{
$iter = 0;
foreach ($xml->children() as $b) {
$a = $b->getName();
if (!$b->children()) {
$arr[$a] = trim($b[0]);
} else {
$arr[$a][$iter] = array();
$arr[$a][$iter] = xml2phpArray($b, $arr[$a][$iter]);
}
$iter++;
}
return $arr;
}
function xml2array($source, $arr)
{
$xml = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents($source));
$iter = 0;
foreach ($xml->children() as $b) {
$a = $b->getName();
if (!$b->children()) {
$arr[$a] = trim($b[0]);
} else {
$arr[$a][$iter] = array();
$arr[$a][$iter] = xml2phpArray($b, $arr[$a][$iter]);
}
$iter++;
}
return $arr;
}
