Save array as xml

Question

array(
name => text,
surname => text,
country => text,
date => text
)

1) How can I save this array to file as xml file?

Answer 1

Using SimpleXML

for #1 (as in How to convert array to SimpleXML)

');
  array_walk_recursive($test_array, array ($xml, 'addChild'));
  print $xml->asXML("file.xml");

for #2

$xml_data_as_object = simplexml_load_file("file.xml")

returns an object representation of the xml data.

convert the object to an array with:

$xml_data_as_array = array();
foreach ($xml_data->root as $children) {
   $xml_data_as_array[] = array(
     "name" => $children->name,
     "surname" => $children->surname,
     "country" => $children->country,
     "date" => $children->date
  );
}