Comments on: Convert simplexml object to array in php

By: Juan

Juan — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 17:31:41 +0000

All the code in this post has been htmlentitied()

By: Ajay Kulkarni

Ajay Kulkarni — Fri, 11 May 2018 12:50:24 +0000

Works perfectly, thanks.
$t = array(); // I think you can remove this line in xml2array() method.

By: Fernando Lira

Fernando Lira — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:41:37 +0000

This “tiny” great solution save me a lot of codification hours.

Thank you, bro!

By: Hina Vaja

Hina Vaja — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:48:06 +0000

Really helpful to me this content
Thank you so much

By: Marc Van Coillie

Marc Van Coillie — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:00:09 +0000

Hi, I’m currently using your code in a new PHP script to generate KML (Googlemap, googleearth, openstreetmap) based on ical from GoogleCalendar.
I plan to deliver it using GNU LGLP license

I could mention your name and can put your email address, are you happy with that ?
Best regards
Marc Van Coillie (from France)

By: delidiwane

delidiwane — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 02:18:00 +0000

yes but this is not for large xml files over 200k lines. You will get an empty json_decode result

By: Rafael Martino

Rafael Martino — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:24:00 +0000

Thank you! Very helpful.

By: jake

jake — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:41:00 +0000

This just savedme after pulling at my hair for quite a whhile.
thanks so much.

By: Dim

Dim — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:03:03 +0000

Little “fast” fix to fix:

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[gebruiker] => Array
(
[0] => 94
[1] => test@test.be
)

to:

[gebruiker] => Array
(
[0] => 94
[1] => test@test.be
)

==> (see if($xml->$k->count() == 1){ )

function xml2array($xml) {
$arr = array();

foreach ($xml->children() as $k => $r) {

if (count($r->children()) == 0) {
if($xml->$k->count() == 1){
$arr[$r->getName()] = strval($r);
}else{
$arr[$r->getName()][] = strval($r);
}//Endif
} else {

print_r(xml2array($r));

$arr[$r->getName()][] = xml2array($r);
}//Endif
}//Endofreach

return $arr;
}