Guys, I hope this example will help
you can erase prints showing the process-
and it will be a piece of nice code.
<?php
function xml2assoc($xml, $name)
{
print "<ul>";
$tree = null;
print("I'm inside " . $name . "<br>");
while($xml->read())
{
if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::END_ELEMENT)
{
print "</ul>";
return $tree;
}
else if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::ELEMENT)
{
$node = array();
print("Adding " . $xml->name ."<br>");
$node['tag'] = $xml->name;
if($xml->hasAttributes)
{
$attributes = array();
while($xml->moveToNextAttribute())
{
print("Adding attr " . $xml->name ." = " . $xml->value . "<br>");
$attributes[$xml->name] = $xml->value;
}
$node['attr'] = $attributes;
}
if(!$xml->isEmptyElement)
{
$childs = xml2assoc($xml, $node['tag']);
$node['childs'] = $childs;
}
print($node['tag'] . " added <br>");
$tree[] = $node;
}
else if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::TEXT)
{
$node = array();
$node['text'] = $xml->value;
$tree[] = $node;
print "text added = " . $node['text'] . "<br>";
}
}
print "returning " . count($tree) . " childs<br>";
print "</ul>";
return $tree;
}
echo "<PRE>";
$xml = new XMLReader();
$xml->open('test.xml');
$assoc = xml2assoc($xml, "root");
$xml->close();
print_r($assoc);
echo "</PRE>";
?>
It reads this xml:
<test>
<hallo volume="loud"> me <br/> lala </hallo>
<hallo> me </hallo>
</test>
