Help needed with XML to Array

[mobifree]

'm trying to write a script that will covert an XML response to an Array.

 

The format of the xml response is the following (1 of 2 possibilities):

if found

<response>
<imei>123123123123111</imei>
<unlockcode>34343434</unlockcode> 
</response>

if not found:

<response>
<imei>123123123123111</imei>
<unlockcode>Not Found</unlockcode> 
</response> 

 

I've been able to create the xml files yes.xml and no.xml and using this script I found on the internet have been able to parse it.

 

<?php
function objectsIntoArray($arrObjData, $arrSkipIndices = array())
{
    $arrData = array();
    
    // if input is object, convert into array
    if (is_object($arrObjData)) {
        $arrObjData = get_object_vars($arrObjData);
    }
    
    if (is_array($arrObjData)) {
        foreach ($arrObjData as $index => $value) {
            if (is_object($value) || is_array($value)) {
                $value = objectsIntoArray($value, $arrSkipIndices); // recursive call
            }
            if (in_array($index, $arrSkipIndices)) {
                continue;
            }
            $arrData[$index] = $value;
        }
    }
    return $arrData;
}

$xmlUrl = "no.xml"; // XML feed file/URL
$xmlStr = file_get_contents($xmlUrl);
$xmlObj = simplexml_load_string($xmlStr);
$arrXml = objectsIntoArray($xmlObj);
// print_r($arrXml);
// print $arrXml['unlockcode'];
if ($arrXml['unlockcode'] == "Not Found")
{
echo "Unable to find the unlock code";
}

else
{
echo "Found the code! Here it is!";
echo $arrXml['unlockcode'];
}
?>

 

What I'm trying to do is create a file response.php that will parse the information sent from the server in the xml format described above into an array (instead of reading it from a local file).

 

Your help is appreciated!

 

Thanks in advance.

[jonsjava]

I would recommend you use SimpleXML for handling XML.

[mobifree]

Thanks for the response.

 

Here's my question. Since there is no actual XML file that resides on my server (the xml information is a response from a 3rd party server) how will I handle the information?

 

Will I have to create a script to first write a temp .xml file with the response then, use the SimpleXML script to parse this data into an array?

 

Or is there a 1 shot process where the XML response from the 3rd party server gets parsed in the same script (without creating a temp .xml file everytime the 3rd party server sends a response)?

 

Thanks in advance.

[codebyren]

jonsjava has shown you the light.  If you read the SimpleXML docs, you will see there is a way to load XML from a string directly:

 

<?php
$string = "<response><imei>123123123123111</imei><unlockcode>34343434</unlockcode></response>";
$xmlobj = simplexml_load_string($string);

// Play with objects
$imei = $xmlobj->imei;
$unlockcode = $xmlobj->unlockcode;
echo "The imei is $imei and the unlock code is $unlockcode <br />";

// or play with arrays
$xml_array = (array) $xmlobj;
echo "The imei is {$xml_array['imei']} and the unlock code is {$xml_array['unlockcode']}";
?>

 

That should get you going...

[mobifree]

Sorry to bring up an incredibly old thread.

I figured since the subject is follow up on the original topic, why waste a new thread.

 

<?
include(".inc/config.php");
$xml = file_get_contents("php://input");
$xmlobj = simplexml_load_string($xml);
// Play with objects
$imei = $xmlobj->imei;
$code = $xmlobj->unlockcode;

$message = "
$xml

IMEI: $imei
Code: $code
";
mailt($to, $subject, $message, "From: $from");
?>

 

 

This is the e-mail I get.

 

Where $code and $imei are blank.

 

data=

                      <response>

                              <imei>123456789123456</imei>

                              <unlockcode>12345678</unlockcode>

                      </response>

 

 

IMEI:

Code:

 

I'm just e-mailing myself so that I can see what exactly is being outputted.

 

Ideally I just want to have 2 usable variables ($imei and $code) from the xml response from the API server.

 

Help is appreciated.

 

Thanks,

[devWhiz]

Can you post the full xml stream?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Your input string contains - data=. That is not xml and makes your xml source invalid.

 

You need to have php's error_reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors set to ON or log_errors set to ON so that all the php detected errors will be reported and displayed/logged. You would have been getting the following warnings and notices -

 

Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in your_file.php on line x

 

Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: data= in your_file.php on line x

 

Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: ^ in your_file.php on line x

 

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in your_file.php on line y

 

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in your_file.php on line z