kristofferhagen/simplexml2flatarray

Converts an XML document to several flat arrays containing values from parent elements using SimpleXML

SimpleXML2FlatArray

Converts an XML document to several flat arrays containing values from parent elements using SimpleXML., _(*1)

Useful for storing xml data in a database., _(*2)

Usage

First of all, you need to create a SimpleXML object. You can do this in one of several ways:, _(*3)

// Load from file
$simplexml = simplexml_load_file('data.xml');

// Load from string
$simplexml = simplexml_load_string($xml_string);

It is also possible to load from a DOM node. For more information on creating a SimpleXML object, see this documentation page., _(*4)

The following code reads the $simplexml object created above into a flat array $data:, _(*5)

$xml = new SimpleXML2FlatArray($simplexml);

$data = $xml->get();

You can aslo iterate over the SimpleXML2FlatArray object, as shown below:, _(*6)

foreach ($xml as $v) {
    // $v is a key => value pair of values parsed from the xml
    var_dump($v);
}