Comments on: XML string to PHP array

By: Rohan Sehgal

Rohan Sehgal — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:54:37 +0000

Really helpful functions!!

Thanks a lot!!

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PHP: XML to Array | nickmallare.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:51:18 +0000

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By: zeeshan

zeeshan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:35:08 +0000

nice man. keep it up

By: ad

ad — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:30:40 +0000

Please post feature requests to github for discussion

By: Werner

Werner — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:34:31 +0000

@Rasmus

So far, ad’s code handles more XML documents than yours. Be it ugly, it’s definitely more useful IMHO.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:37:57 +0000

Great job, thank you very much!

By: Tim Lee

Tim Lee — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:44:57 +0000

I was wondering if you could modify this to support multiple parent nodes in the xml? Right now if I give it this xml:



  
    
      Brian
      Chris
      Meg
      Stewie]]>
    
    
      
      
      0
    
  
  
    you

I get this as a result:


Array
(
)

This code works fine if the "testing" node is within the tv node, like so:



  
    
      Brian
      Chris
      Meg
      Stewie]]>
    
    
      
      
      0
    
  
    you

Is this something you could look into? Thanks, Tim

By: ad

ad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:06:18 +0000

@Ben: could you make a patch and submit a pull request to https://github.com/gaarf/XML-string-to-PHP-array ?

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:52:13 +0000

One slight mod (added code) to the github.com code repository fixes both the “empty to array” issue and the “non printing zeros issue” for me (swiping @Jonathan’s code and modifying it slightly):

From the clean code at github.com above the line “$output[$t][] = $v;” put the following :

if(empty($v) && $v !== '0') { $v = ""; }

This enables the zeros to show up in the array, otherwise zeros in the xml like 0 show up as empty.

Again, fantastic code. The best XML to Array PHP function out there, hands down. This code should be polished/vetted and incorporated into the PHP core functions at a lower level, really. Would save a lot of people a lot of frustration.

By: kontur

kontur — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:12:58 +0000

Thanks for posting this code. I was struggling with php’s own simpleXML, trying to wrap my head around how to deal with different namepspaces. Your function, however, was all sufficient to get two simple fields from the xml!

Thanks also to Aurelien for the fix on the empty string issue.