Associate array to XML and JSON

nowel (hata) — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:12:58 GMT

PHP Associate array data



$data = array(

    "hoge" => 123,

    "foo" => 456,

    "bar" => 789,

    "aaa" => array(

        "abc" => 111,

        "bcd" => 222,

        "cde" => 333

    ),

    "bbb" => array(

        "def" => array(

            "efg" => "hoge"

        )

    )

);

to XML



$xml = new XmlWriter();

$xml->openMemory();

$xml->startDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');

$xml->startElement('root');



function write(XMLWriter $xml, $data){

    foreach($data as $key => $value){

        if(is_array($value)){

            $xml->startElement($key);

            write($xml, $value);

            $xml->endElement();

            continue;

        }

        $xml->writeElement($key, $value);

    }

}

write($xml, $data);



$xml->endElement();

echo $xml->outputMemory(true);

output XML

to JSON



echo json_encode($data);

output JSON



{

    "hoge":123,

    "foo":456,

    "bar":789,

    "aaa":{

        "abc":111,

        "bcd":222,

        "cde":333

    },

    "bbb":{

        "def":{

            "efg":"hoge"

        }

    }

}

Requires PHP5.2.x or xmlwriter extension, json extension

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Associate array to XML and JSON