How to convert array to SimpleXML

Question

How can I convert an array to a SimpleXML object in PHP?

Answer 1

So anyway... I took onokazu's code (thanks!) and added the ability to have repeated tags in XML, it also supports attributes, hope someone finds it useful!

  $v) {

            $attrArr = array();
            $kArray = explode(' ',$k);
            $tag = array_shift($kArray);

            if (count($kArray) > 0) {
                foreach($kArray as $attrValue) {
                    $attrArr[] = explode('=',$attrValue);                   
                }
            }

            if (is_array($v)) {
                if (is_numeric($k)) {
                    array_to_xml($v, $xml);
                } else {
                    $child = $xml->addChild($tag);
                    if (isset($attrArr)) {
                        foreach($attrArr as $attrArrV) {
                            $child->addAttribute($attrArrV[0],$attrArrV[1]);
                        }
                    }                   
                    array_to_xml($v, $child);
                }
            } else {
                $child = $xml->addChild($tag, $v);
                if (isset($attrArr)) {
                    foreach($attrArr as $attrArrV) {
                        $child->addAttribute($attrArrV[0],$attrArrV[1]);
                    }
                }
            }               
        }

        return $xml;
    }

        $test_array = array (
          'bla' => 'blub',
          'foo' => 'bar',
          'another_array' => array (
            array('stack' => 'overflow'),
            array('stack' => 'overflow'),
            array('stack' => 'overflow'),
          ),
          'foo attribute1=value1 attribute2=value2' => 'bar',
        );  

        $xml = array_to_xml($test_array, new SimpleXMLElement(''))->asXML();

        echo "$xml\n";
        $dom = new DOMDocument;
        $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = FALSE;
        $dom->loadXML($xml);
        $dom->formatOutput = TRUE;
        echo $dom->saveXml();
    ?>