Convert multiple arrays into XML in CakePHP

Question

This is my array:

 Array (
     [Payments] => Array (
          [0] => Array (
            [Payment] => Array (
                  [Invoice] => Array (
                      [InvoiceNumber] => INV-0084
                  )
                  [Account] => Array (
                      [Code] => 260
                  )
                 [Date] => 1969-12-31T17:00:00
                 [Amount] => 119
             )
         )
        [1] => Array (
            [Payment] => Array (
                 [Invoice] => Array (
                       [InvoiceNumber] => INV-0085
                 )
                 [Account] => Array (
                       [Code] => 260
                 )
                 [Date] => 1969-12-31T17:00:00
                 [Amount] => 132
             )
        )
    )
)

I need to convert it to XML data. I have used the CakePHP library to convert the XML data.

<Payments>
  <Payment>
     <Invoice>
         <InvoiceNumber>INV-0084</InvoiceNumber>
     </Invoice>
     <Account>
         <Code>260</Code>
     </Account>
     <Date>2016-06-01T17:00:00 </Date>
     <Amount>119</Amount>
 </Payment>
 <Payment>
     <Invoice>
         <InvoiceNumber>INV-0085</InvoiceNumber>
    </Invoice>
    <Account>
       <Code>260</Code>
    </Account>
    <Date>2016-06-01T17:00:00 </Date>
    <Amount>132</Amount>
</Payment>

I had used the function

$paymentXml = Xml::fromArray($paymentXmlData, array('format' =>'tags'));
$paymentXml = $paymentXml->asXML();

The error I got was:

SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): Entity: line 3: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document","file":"/var/www/html/limeactuarial/lib/Cake/Utility/Xml.php","line":197

How do I solve these by using the default library?

possible duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17428323/convert-multidimensional-array-into-xml — Megan Fox, Jun 01 '16 at 13:48
I can easily convert array without [0] and [1] which you can see in array (i.e) single array. — KARTHI SRV, Jun 01 '16 at 13:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '16 at 18:52

Check the documentation. Your data is not correctly structured; nodes need to be nested under a single key, which serves as the name for the nodes.

What you are doing there will effectively create multiple root nodes, like:

<Payments>
    <Payment>
        <Invoice>
            <InvoiceNumber>INV-0084</InvoiceNumber>
        </Invoice>
        ...
    </Payment>
</Payments>
<Payments>
    <Payment>
        <Invoice>
            <InvoiceNumber>INV-0085</InvoiceNumber>
        </Invoice>
        ...
    </Payment>
</Payments>

Which is invalid XML. Your data needs to be structured like this, where Payments will be the root node, containing two Payment nodes.

array(
    'Payments' => array(
        'Payment' => array(
            array(
                'Invoice' => array(
                    'InvoiceNumber' => 'INV-0084'
                ),
                'Account' => array(
                    'Code' => '260'
                ),
                'Date' => '1969-12-31T17:00:00',
                'Amount' => '119'
            ),
            array(
                'Invoice' => array(
                    'InvoiceNumber' => 'INV-0085'
                ),
                'Account' => array(
                    'Code' => '260'
                ),
                'Date' => '1969-12-31T17:00:00',
                'Amount' => '132'
            )
        )
    )
)

Convert multiple arrays into XML in CakePHP

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