baraja-core / xml-to-php-array
XML to PHP array convertor
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Requires
- php: ^8.0
- ext-dom: *
Requires (Dev)
- phpstan/extension-installer: ^1.1
- phpstan/phpstan: ^1.0
- phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: ^1.0
- phpstan/phpstan-nette: ^1.0
- phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules: ^1.0
- roave/security-advisories: dev-master
- spaze/phpstan-disallowed-calls: ^2.0
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Last update: 2024-10-12 12:04:19 UTC
README
Smart tool to convert your XML to PHP array.
This is fork from gaarf/XML-string-to-PHP-array.
Install and simply use
Use Composer:
composer require baraja-core/xml-to-php-array
And then package will be automatically installed to your project and you can simply call:
$resultArray = Convertor::covertToArray($xml);
Documentation
One common need when working in PHP is a way to convert an XML document into a serializable array. If you ever tried to serialize() and then unserialize() a SimpleXML or DOMDocument object, you know what I’m talking about.
Assume the following XML snippet:
<tv> <show name="Family Guy"> <dog>Brian</dog> <kid>Chris</kid> <kid>Meg</kid> </show> </tv>
There’s a quick and dirty way to do convert such a document to an array, using type casting and the JSON functions to ensure there are no exotic values that would cause problems when unserializing:
$a = json_decode(json_encode((array) Convertor::covertToArray($s)), true);
Here is the result for our sample XML, eg if we print_r($a)
:
Array
(
[show] => Array
(
[@attributes] => Array
(
[name] => Family Guy
)
[dog] => Brian
[kid] => Array
(
[0] => Chris
[1] => Meg
)
)
)
Pretty nifty, eh? But maybe we want to embed some HTML tags or something crazy along those lines. then we need a CDATA node…
<tv> <show name="Family Guy"> <dog>Brian</dog> <kid>Chris</kid> <kid>Meg</kid> <kid><![CDATA[<em>Stewie</em>]]></kid> </show> </tv>
The snippet of XML above would yield the following:
Array
(
[show] => Array
(
[@attributes] => Array
(
[name] => Family Guy
)
[dog] => Brian
[kid] => Array
(
[0] => Chris
[1] => Meg
[2] => Array
(
)
)
)
)
That’s not very useful. We got in trouble because the CDATA node, a SimpleXMLElement, is being cast to an array instead of a string. To handle this case while still keeping the nice @attributes notation, we need a slightly more verbose conversion function. This is my version, hereby released under a do-whatever-but-dont-sue-me license.
The result, for our Stewie snippet:
Array
(
[show] => Array
(
[@attributes] => Array
(
[name] => Family Guy
)
[dog] => Brian
[kid] => Array
(
[0] => Chris
[1] => Meg
[2] => <em>Stewie</em>
)
)
)
Victory is mine! :D