Is there a way to convert an XML page to JSON automatically via PHP?

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Here is what my a sample of my output XML looks like:

<item>
 <Barcode>0602527522593</Barcode>
 <albumid>1818</albumid>
 <Title>Gold</Title>
 <Country>Sweden</Country>
 <Format>CD</Format>
 <Length></Length>
 <Number_of_Discs></Number_of_Discs>
 <Type>album</Type>
 <Description></Description>
 <Band_or_Artist>Adams, Ryan</Band_or_Artist>
</item>

Is there an easy to use built-in PHP function or add-in to quickly convert this to JSON and output it? If it's not built-in, which extension should I use?

Since you say this XML is your output, it might be easier to just generate JSON from whatever your source data is, rather than generating XML and then converting it into JSON. Where is the data coming from? — Jazz, May 09 '12 at 22:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '12 at 22:08

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As an alternative to do this on the client-side is the XML to JSON plugin from fyneworks.

answered May 09 '12 at 22:08

Icarus

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 09 '12 at 22:10

You can use SimpleXML (http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php) to read the XML input and then json_encode (http://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php) to create the output.

You probably just want to iterate over the node list and put everything in an array using the tag names as keys, should be fairly simple.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 09 '12 at 22:09

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There are plenty. Here's one from IBM: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xml2jsonphp/

answered May 09 '12 at 22:09

LeonardChallis

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 09 '12 at 22:16

Something like this?

<?php

$xmlstr = "<item>
 <Barcode>0602527522593</Barcode>
 <albumid>1818</albumid>
 <Title>Gold</Title>
 <Country>Sweden</Country>
 <Format>CD</Format>
 <Length></Length>
 <Number_of_Discs></Number_of_Discs>
 <Type>album</Type>
 <Description></Description>
 <Band_or_Artist>Adams, Ryan</Band_or_Artist>
</item>";

$movies = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
echo $output = json_encode($movies);
?>

Is there a way to convert an XML page to JSON automatically via PHP?

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