Converting a SimpleXML Object to an Array

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I came across this function of converting a SimpleXML Object to an array here          function object2array - A simpler way to transform the result into an array        requires json module         This function is part of the PHP manual        The PHP manual text and comments are covered by the Creative Commons     Attribution 3 0 License  copyright  c  the PHP Documentation Group        author  Diego Araos  diego at klapmedia dot com     date    2011-02-05 04 57 UTC     link    http   www php net manual en function simplexml-load-string php 102277     license http   www php net license index php doc-lic     license http   creativecommons org licenses by 3 0      license CC-BY-3 0  lt http   spdx org licenses CC-BY-3 0 gt      function object2array  object        return json decode json encode  object   TRUE        So my adoption for an XML strings is like   function xmlstring2array  string         xml     simplexml load string  string   SimpleXMLElement   LIBXML NOCDATA         array   json decode json encode  xml   TRUE        return  array      It works pretty well  but it seems a bit hacky  Is there a more efficient robust way of doing this   I know that the SimpleXML Object is close enough to an array because it makes use of the ArrayAccess interface in PHP but it still doesn t work great to use as an array with multi-dimensional arrays i e  looping   Thanks all for any help

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Just  array  is missing in your code before the simplexml object         xml     simplexml load string  string   SimpleXMLElement   LIBXML NOCDATA     array   json decode json encode  array  xml   TRUE

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I found this in the PHP manual comments          function xml2array       This function is part of the PHP manual        The PHP manual text and comments are covered by the Creative Commons     Attribution 3 0 License  copyright  c  the PHP Documentation Group        author  k dot antczak at livedata dot pl     date    2011-04-22 06 08 UTC     link    http   www php net manual en ref simplexml php 103617     license http   www php net license index php doc-lic     license http   creativecommons org licenses by 3 0      license CC-BY-3 0  lt http   spdx org licenses CC-BY-3 0 gt      function xml2array    xmlObject   out   array            foreach    array   xmlObject as  index   gt   node            out  index      is object    node       xml2array    node      node       return  out      It could help you  However  if you convert XML to an array you will loose all attributes that might be present  so you cannot go back to XML and get the same XML

[php] Converting a SimpleXML Object to an Array

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