This class can parse XML and return the document structure in an array. It takes a string with a XML document and parses it using PHP SimpleXML or Expat extensions. The class returns an nested array with the details of each XML document tag and data elements.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
<extra1>1111</extra1>
<extra2>2222</extra2>
<extra3>3333</extra3>
</data>XmlToArray::xmlToArray($xml);
array(
'data' => array(
'extra1' => 1111,
'extra2' => 2222,
'extra3' => 3333,
),
)<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
<id>1001</id>
<info att1="one" att2="two"></info>
<extra>1111</extra>
<extra>2222</extra>
<extra>3333</extra>
</data>XmlToArray::xmlToArray($xml);
array(
'data' => array(
'id' => 1001,
'info' => null,
'@info' => array(
'att1' => 'one',
'att2' => 'two',
),
'extra' => array(
0 => 1111,
1 => 2222,
2 => 3333,
),
),
)XmlToArray::xmlToArray($xml, true, false);
array(
'data' => array(
'id' => array(
'value' => 1001,
),
'info' => array(
'@attributes' => array(
'att1' => 'one',
'att2' => 'two',
),
),
'extra' => array(
0 => array(
'value' => 1111,
),
1 => array(
'value' => 2222,
),
2 => array(
'value' => 3333,
),
),
),
)XmlToArray::xmlToArray($xml, false, true);
array(
'data' => array(
'id' => 1001,
'info' => null,
'extra' => array(
0 => 1111,
1 => 2222,
2 => 3333,
),
),
)XmlToArray::xmlToArray($xml, false, false);
array(
'data' => array(
'id' => array(
'value' => 1001,
),
'info' => null,
'extra' => array(
0 => array(
'value' => 1111,
),
1 => array(
'value' => 2222,
),
2 => array(
'value' => 3333,
),
),
),
)