SimpleXMLElement for PHP array

Question

The $d variable goes from the file_get_contents function to the URL.

 $answer = @new SimpleXMLElement($d); 

Below is the output of print_r($answer) :

 SimpleXMLElement Object ( [Amount] => 2698 [Status] => OK [State] => FL [Country] => USA ) 

How can I get the value of each element and add to the array? I can’t figure it out.

Answer 1

$answer can already work as an array. You can do this if you want to put it in a real array,

 $array = array(); foreach($answer as $k => $v) { $array[$k] = $v; } 

Answer 2

In this simple case, type casting will also be performed:

 $my_array = (array)$answer 

Answer 3

This should work:

 $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstring); $json = json_encode($xml); $array = json_decode($json,TRUE); 

Answer 4

I have a problem with this function, because typing each XML child into an array can be problematic when the text is between the CDATA tags.

I fixed this by checking if the result of casting to an array is empty. If so, enter it in the string and you will get the correct result.

Here is my modified version with CDATA support:

 function SimpleXML2ArrayWithCDATASupport($xml) { $array = (array)$xml; if (count($array) === 0) { return (string)$xml; } foreach ($array as $key => $value) { if (!is_object($value) || strpos(get_class($value), 'SimpleXML') === false) { continue; } $array[$key] = SimpleXML2ArrayWithCDATASupport($value); } return $array; } 

Answer 5

this function parses xml simpleXML recursive recursive array

 function SimpleXML2Array($xml){ $array = (array)$xml; //recursive Parser foreach ($array as $key => $value){ if(strpos(get_class($value),"SimpleXML")!==false){ $array[$key] = SimpleXML2Array($value); } } return $array; }