Question

I am trying to convert xml into associative array.

  foreach($xml->children() as $child)
  {
  $ages[$child->getName()] = $child;
  }

But when I print out this array ‘ages’, I am getting output as

[Quagmire] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [0] => 30
        )

instead of

[Quagmire] => 30 

What change do I make to get the desired output?

Answer 1

You can explicitly cast the value of the child from a SimpleXML object to an int.

    $ages[$child->getName()] = (int)$child;