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Magento/PHP: Convert your XML Object to Array

· kalpesh

While developing shipment tracking using SimpleXML in magento, I came accross the requirement where I have to get all the XML tags as keys and all the data inside XML tags as values in array. Means I wanted to convert XML to an Array where I can display all the information in some decorative format.

So here is how I converted XML to Array without any kind of hardcoding.

PHP class method to convert xml to array

  
public function convertXmlObjToArr($obj, &$arr){  
 $children = $obj->children();  
 $executed = false;  
 foreach ($children as $elementName => $node){  
 if($arr[$elementName]!=null){  
 if($arr[$elementName][0]!==null){  
 $i = count($arr[$elementName]);  
 $this->convertXmlObjToArr($node, $arr[$elementName][$i]);  
 }else{  
 $tmp = $arr[$elementName];  
 $arr[$elementName] = array();  
 $arr[$elementName][0] = $tmp;  
 $i = count($arr[$elementName]);  
 $this->convertXmlObjToArr($node, $arr[$elementName][$i]);  
 }  
 }else{  
 $arr[$elementName] = array();  
 $this->convertXmlObjToArr($node, $arr[$elementName]);  
 }  
 $executed = true;  
 }  
 if(!$executed&&$children->getName()==””){  
 $arr = (String)$obj;  
 }  
 return;  
 }

Hope this helps!

#convert xml to array #magento #simplexml #simplexml to array