This function will allow you to create XML document with simple PHP array variable. Nodes are just stacked onto each other and naming it 'Attribute_XXX' will add atribute XXX to that parent node.
function to_xml(SimpleXMLElement $object, array $data)
{
$attr = "Attribute_";
foreach ($data as
value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
$new_object = $object->addChild($key);
to_xml($new_object, $value);
} else {
if(strpos(
attr) !== false){
$object->addAttribute(substr($key, strlen($attr)), $value);
}else{
$object->addChild(
value);
}
}
}
}
Usage:
$my_array = array (
'TagN1' => array (
'TagInsideOfIt' => array (
'Atrribute_IDuser' => 'anything',
'RegularTag' => 'whatever',
'Address' => array(
'Attribute_ID' => '111',
'Attribute_key' => 'aaa',
'Company' => 'Google Inc.'
)
)
)
);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<root/>');
to_xml(
my_array);
Header('Content-type: text/xml');
print($xml->asXML());
Answer from jezda159 on Stack OverflowThis function will allow you to create XML document with simple PHP array variable. Nodes are just stacked onto each other and naming it 'Attribute_XXX' will add atribute XXX to that parent node.
function to_xml(SimpleXMLElement $object, array $data)
{
$attr = "Attribute_";
foreach ($data as
value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
$new_object = $object->addChild($key);
to_xml($new_object, $value);
} else {
if(strpos(
attr) !== false){
$object->addAttribute(substr($key, strlen($attr)), $value);
}else{
$object->addChild(
value);
}
}
}
}
Usage:
$my_array = array (
'TagN1' => array (
'TagInsideOfIt' => array (
'Atrribute_IDuser' => 'anything',
'RegularTag' => 'whatever',
'Address' => array(
'Attribute_ID' => '111',
'Attribute_key' => 'aaa',
'Company' => 'Google Inc.'
)
)
)
);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<root/>');
to_xml(
my_array);
Header('Content-type: text/xml');
print($xml->asXML());
You can get some answers at this URL How to convert array to SimpleXML
An alternative/fast and easy approach would be to convert array data into JSON, that would be faster as well using Zend library. Converting array into JSON is very easy as using follows functions.
Zend_Json::encode() and Zend_Json_Encoder::encode()
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function recurse2xml ($array, &$string = "") {
foreach ($array as $key => $subArray) {
if (substr($key, -5) == "_attr")
continue;
$attrs = "";
if (isset($array["$key_attr"]))
foreach ($array["$key_attr"] as $attr => $value)
$attrs .= " $attr='".str_replace($value, "'", "\\'")."'";
if (empty($subArray)) {
$string .= "<$key$attrs />";
} else {
$string .= "<$key$attrs>";
if (is_scalar($subArray))
$string .= $subArray;
else
recurse2xml($subArray, $string);
$string .= "</$key>";
}
}
return $string;
}
This function called with recurse2xml($array); expands your array tree into an xml tree (string form).
Try Array2XML, worked flawlesly for me. Including CDATA Parts, etc.
Here is php 5.2 code which will convert array of any depth to xml document:
Array
(
['total_stud']=> 500
[0] => Array
(
[student] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[name] => abc
[address] => Array
(
[city]=>Pune
[zip]=>411006
)
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[student] => Array
(
[id] => 2
[name] => xyz
[address] => Array
(
[city]=>Mumbai
[zip]=>400906
)
)
)
)
generated XML would be as:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<student_info>
<total_stud>500</total_stud>
<student>
<id>1</id>
<name>abc</name>
<address>
<city>Pune</city>
<zip>411006</zip>
</address>
</student>
<student>
<id>1</id>
<name>abc</name>
<address>
<city>Mumbai</city>
<zip>400906</zip>
</address>
</student>
</student_info>
PHP snippet
<?php
// function defination to convert array to xml
function array_to_xml( $data, &$xml_data ) {
foreach( $data as
value ) {
if( is_array($value) ) {
if( is_numeric($key) ){
$key = 'item'.$key; //dealing with <0/>..<n/> issues
}
$subnode = $xml_data->addChild($key);
array_to_xml($value, $subnode);
} else {
$xml_data->addChild("$key",htmlspecialchars("$value"));
}
}
}
// initializing or creating array
$data = array('total_stud' => 500);
// creating object of SimpleXMLElement
$xml_data = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0"?><data></data>');
// function call to convert array to xml
array_to_xml($data,$xml_data);
//saving generated xml file;
$result = $xml_data->asXML('/file/path/name.xml');
?>
Documentation on SimpleXMLElement::asXML used in this snippet
a short one:
<?php
$test_array = array (
'bla' => 'blub',
'foo' => 'bar',
'another_array' => array (
'stack' => 'overflow',
),
);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<root/>');
array_walk_recursive($test_array, array ($xml, 'addChild'));
print $xml->asXML();
results in
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<blub>bla</blub>
<bar>foo</bar>
<overflow>stack</overflow>
</root>
keys and values are swapped - you could fix that with array_flip() before the array_walk. array_walk_recursive requires PHP 5. you could use array_walk instead, but you won't get 'stack' => 'overflow' in the xml then.