if you use this code below you will understand what i mean. this code solved my problem.
[code]
<?
/**
* XMLToArray Generator Class
* @author : MA Razzaque Rupom <
[email protected]>, <
[email protected]>
* Moderator, phpResource (LINK1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phpresource/LINK1)
* URL: LINK2
http://www.rupom.infoLINK2* @version : 1.0
* @date 06/05/2006
* Purpose : Creating Hierarchical Array from XML Data
* Released : Under GPL
*/
class XmlToArray
{
var $xml='';
/**
* Default Constructor
* @param $xml = xml data
* @return none
*/
function XmlToArray($xml)
{
$this->xml = $xml;
}
/**
* _struct_to_array($values, &$i)
*
* This is adds the contents of the return xml into the array for easier processing.
* Recursive, Static
*
* @access private
* @param array $values this is the xml data in an array
* @param int $i this is the current location in the array
* @return Array
*/
function _struct_to_array($values, &$i)
{
$child = array();
if (isset($values[$i]['value'
])) array_push($child, $values[$i]['value']);
while ($i++ < count($values)) {
switch ($values[$i]['type']) {
case 'cdata':
array_push($child, $values[$i]['value']);
break;
case 'complete':
$name = $values[$i]['tag'];
if(!empty($name)){
$child[$name]= ($values[$i]['value'])?($v
alues[$i][
'value']):
'';
if(isset($values[$i]['attr
ibutes']))
{
$child[$name] = $values[$i]['attributes'];
}
}
break;
case 'open':
$name = $values[$i]['tag'];
$size = isset($child[$name]) ? sizeof($child[$name]) : 0;
$child[$name][$size] = $this->_struct_to_array($va
lues, $i);
break;
case 'close':
return $child;
break;
}
}
return $child;
}//_struct_to_array
/**
* createArray($data)
*
* This is adds the contents of the return xml into the array for easier processing.
*
* @access public
* @param string $data this is the string of the xml data
* @return Array
*/
function createArray()
{
$xml = $this->xml;
$values = array();
$index = array();
$array = array();
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option($par
ser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1);
xml_parser_set_option($par
ser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0);
xml_parse_into_struct($par
ser, $xml, $values, $index);
xml_parser_free($parser);
$i = 0;
$name = $values[$i]['tag'];
$array[$name] = isset($values[$i]['attribu
tes']) ? $values[$i]['attributes'] : '';
$array[$name] = $this->_struct_to_array($va
lues, $i);
return $array;
}//createArray
}//XmlToArray
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<?php
$xml_data = file_get_contents("XMLForm
atPerforma
nceReport.
xml");
//Creating Instance of the Class
$xmlObj = new XmlToArray($xml_data);
//Creating Array
$arrayData = $xmlObj->createArray();
//Displaying the Array
echo "<pre>";
print_r($arrayData);
?>
</body>
</html>
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