Question

I am doing some geocoding with the google api and was wondering how do i cast the returned simplexml object? I tried the following but it does no cast the child objects.. ie.. i would like a multi dimensional array.

$url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=".$adr."
&sensor=false";

$result = simplexml_load_file($url);

$result = (array) $result;

Answer 1

You could make a JSON request rather than XML; it’s recommended; unless your application requires it. Then use:

json_decode( $result, true );

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php