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

$templateData =  $_POST['data'];

// initializing or creating array
$template_info =  $templateData;

// creating object of SimpleXMLElement
$xml_template_info = new SimpleXMLElement("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><template></template>");

// function call to convert array to xml
array_to_xml($template_info,$xml_template_info);

//saving generated xml file
 $xml_template_info->asXML(dirname(__FILE__)."/manifest.xml") ;

// function defination to convert array to xml
function array_to_xml($template_info, &$xml_template_info) {
    foreach($template_info as $key => $value) {
        if(is_array($value)) {
            if(!is_numeric($key)){
                $subnode = $xml_template_info->addChild($key);
                if(is_array($value)){
                    $cont = 0;
                    foreach(array_keys($value) as $k){
                        if(is_numeric($k)) $cont++;
                    }
                }

                if($cont>0){
                    for($i=0; $i < $cont; $i++){
                        $subnode = $xml_body_info->addChild($key);
                        array_to_xml($value[$i], $subnode);
                    }
                }else{
                    $subnode = $xml_body_info->addChild($key);
                    array_to_xml($value, $subnode);
                }
            }
            else{
                array_to_xml($value, $xml_template_info);
            }
        }
        else {
            $xml_template_info->addChild($key,$value);
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Best solution which works like a charm

$fileContents= file_get_contents($url);

$fileContents = str_replace(array("\n", "\r", "\t"), '', $fileContents);

$fileContents = trim(str_replace('"', "'", $fileContents));

$simpleXml = simplexml_load_string($fileContents);

//$json = json_encode($simpleXml); // Remove // if you want to store the result in $json variable

echo '<pre>'.json_encode($simpleXml,JSON_PRETTY_PRINT).'</pre>';

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