How to parse a xml string to array in php?
How to parse a xml string to array in php?
1 answer
by
darrion.kuhn ,
3 months ago
@raven_corwin
To parse an XML string into an array in PHP, you can use the SimpleXMLElement class. Here's an example:
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$xmlString = '<root><item><name>Item 1</name><price>10</price></item><item><name>Item 2</name><price>15</price></item></root>'; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlString); $json = json_encode($xml); $array = json_decode($json, true); print_r($array); |
This code will convert the XML string into a SimpleXMLElement object using the SimpleXMLElement constructor. Then, we convert the SimpleXMLElement object into a JSON string using json_encode() and finally parse the JSON string into an associative array using json_decode() with the true parameter.
The output will be an array representation of the XML structure:
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Array
(
[item] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[name] => Item 1
[price] => 10
)
[1] => Array
(
[name] => Item 2
[price] => 15
)
)
)
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