README

This is a very simple and basic library that will create a PHP Array from a well formatted XML input. This library does the opposite of our DOM-Array library which converts an array into an XML file.

Requirements

• PHP 5.5+

Installation

The easiest way to install this library is to use composer. To install, simply include the following in your composer.json file:

"require": {
    "multidimensional/xml-array": "*"
}

Or run the following command from a terminal or shell:

composer require --prefer-dist multidimensional/xml-array

You can also specify version constraints, with more information available here.

Usage

This library utilizes PSR-4 autoloading, so make sure you include the library near the top of your class file:

use Multidimensional\XmlArray\XMLArray;

How to use in your code:

$xml = '<tag>Value</tag>';
$array = XMLArray::generateArray($xml);
print_r($array);

//$array = array("tag" => array(0 => 'Value'));

By default, the library will convert attributes and will prepend @ prior to the name of the attribute. You can disable the conversion of attributes by setting the 2nd parameter in generateArray to false.

When set to false, the attributes will be placed in an array, typically marked by the value '@attributes'.

Null or Empty XML will return a null array.

Contributing

We appreciate all help in improving this library by either adding functions or improving existing functionality. If you do want to add to our library, please ensure you use PSR-2 formatting and add unit testing for all added functions.

Feel free to fork and submit a pull request!

License

MIT License

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