PHP convert XML to JSON

Question

I am trying to convert xml to json in php. If I do a simple convert using simple xml and json_encode none of the attributes in the xml show.

$xml = simplexml         


        

Answer 1

After researching a little bit all of the answers, I came up with a solution that worked just fine with my JavaScript functions across browsers (Including consoles / Dev Tools) :

 childNodes as $node) {
   if ( $node -> hasChildNodes() ) { json2xml( $node ); }
   else {
    if ( $domNode -> hasAttributes() && strlen( $domNode -> nodeValue ) ) {
     $domNode -> setAttribute( "nodeValue", $node -> textContent );
     $node -> nodeValue = "";
    }
   }
  }
 }

 function jsonOut( $file ) {
  $dom = new DOMDocument();
  $dom -> loadXML( file_get_contents( $file ) );
  json2xml( $dom );
  header( 'Content-Type: application/json' );
  return str_replace( "@", "", json_encode( simplexml_load_string( $dom -> saveXML() ), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT ) );
 }

 $output = jsonOut( 'https://boxelizer.com/assets/a1e10642e9294f39/b6f30987f0b66103.xml' );

 echo( $output );

 /*
  Or simply 
  echo( jsonOut( 'https://boxelizer.com/assets/a1e10642e9294f39/b6f30987f0b66103.xml' ) );
 */

?>

It basically creates a new DOMDocument, loads and XML file into it and traverses through each one of the nodes and children getting the data / parameters and exporting it into JSON without the annoying "@" signs.

Link to the XML file.